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Published March 18, 2008 05:28 pm - CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Jasper County Commission on Thursday will consider another ordinance — this one aimed at adult video and bookstores — to regulate sexually oriented businesses in the county.
New Jasper County measure targets more adult businesses w/ link to proposed sexually oriented business, pornography ordinance
By Susan Redden
sredden@joplinglobe.com
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Jasper County Commission on Thursday will consider another ordinance — this one aimed at adult video and bookstores — to regulate sexually oriented businesses in the county.
The new measure was being circulated Tuesday in advance of the Thursday session.
The measure was drafted at the commission’s request, but John Bartosh, presiding commissioner, said he is not sure the panel will act on the proposed new rules at Thursday’s meeting.
“We just got it today, and I want us all to be able to study it and make sure it says what we want,” he said Tuesday.
The commission last month approved an ordinance targeting adult cabarets such as a juice bar that was being proposed for a new building just off Interstate 44 east of Carthage. Action on the measure came at the urging of a residents’ group that organized to fight the proposed operation. The group also urged the commission to strengthen regulations on related businesses, such as adult-video arcades and bookstores.
Ernest Doyon, of Wichita, Kan., who earlier proposed the juice bar, also has applied for a county license for an adult-video operation in the same building. Initially, Doyon had sought licenses for a video store and arcade, and for a juice bar that would have featured seminude dancing. County officials say plans were altered to include the video operation and a bar that would serve alcohol.
Joplin attorney Bill Fleischaker, who represents Doyon, said the county’s latest measure “is the third time they’ve made or changed an ordinance trying to block my client’s business.”
He said requirements in the measure make it “impossible for my client to comply with the license, because of the lighting required, and they’ve made it so that no one can view a video in privacy. No one will rent a video they can’t view, so they’ve made it impossible for the business to run profitably.”
He said the proposal and earlier action by the commission “are destroying my client’s First Amendment right to make this material available.”
“We’ll have to look and see what we can do in court,” Fleischaker said. “If they want to risk the county treasury to promote a political agenda, that’s up to them.”
The new measure would apply not just to Doyon’s proposed business, but to other adult-video stores and related outlets now operating in the county, said Blake Wolf, legal adviser to the commission.
“They would all have to get licensed under this ordinance,” he said.
Much of the measure is based on an ordinance in Jackson County, Wolf said.
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