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Florida House of Representatives - 2001 HB 1777
By Representative Murman
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to educational facilities;
3 amending s. 847.001, F.S.; adding and revising
4 definitions; creating s. 847.0134, F.S.;
5 prohibiting the location of adult entertainment
6 establishments within a specified distance of a
7 school; providing a criminal penalty; providing
8 an exception; providing an effective date.
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10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12 Section 1. Section 847.001, Florida Statutes, is
13 amended to read:
14 847.001 Definitions.--When used in this chapter:
15 (1) "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older.
16 (2) "Adult entertainment establishment" means any
17 commercial establishment, business, or service, or portion
18 thereof, that offers sexually oriented material, devices,
19 paraphernalia, or specific sexual activities, services, or
20 performances in any combination or in any other form, whether
21 printed, filmed, recorded, or live. "Adult entertainment
22 establishment" also includes, but is not limited to, the
23 following terms as defined:
24 (a) "Adult bookstore" means any corporation,
25 partnership, or business of any kind, which business restricts
26 or purports to restrict admission only to adults, which has as
27 part of its stock books, magazines, or other periodicals, and
28 which offers, sells, provides, or rents for a fee:
29 1. Any sexually oriented material;
30 2. Any sexually oriented material that is available
31 for viewing by patrons on the premises by means of the
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1 operation of movie machines, video cassette recorders, or
2 slide projectors;
3 3. Any sexually oriented material that has a
4 substantial portion of its contents devoted to the pictorial
5 depiction of sadism, masochism, or bestiality; or
6 4. Any sexually oriented material that has as its
7 principal theme the depiction of sexual activity by, or
8 lascivious exhibition of, the uncovered genitals, pubic
9 region, or buttocks of children who are or appear to be under
10 the age of 18.
11 (b) "Adult motion picture theater" means an enclosed
12 building or an enclosed space within a building used for
13 presenting either films, live plays, dances, or other
14 performances that are distinguished or characterized by an
15 emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to
16 specific sexual activities for observation by patrons.
17 (c) "Massage establishment" means any business or
18 enterprise which offers, sells, or provides, or which holds
19 itself out as offering, selling, or providing massages that
20 include bathing, physical massage, rubbing, kneading,
21 anointing, stroking, manipulating, or other tactile
22 stimulation of the human body by either male or female
23 employees or attendants, by hand or by any electrical or
24 mechanical device, on or off the premises. "Massage
25 establishment" does not include establishments that routinely
26 provide medical services by state-licensed health care
27 practitioners, electrolysis treatment by licensed operators of
28 electrolysis equipment, and massage by licensed massage
29 therapists.
30 (3)(1) "Computer" means an electronic, magnetic,
31 optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing
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1 device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions
2 and includes any data storage facility or communications
3 facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with
4 such device. The term also includes: any on-line service,
5 Internet service, or local bulletin board; any electronic
6 storage device, including a floppy disk or other magnetic
7 storage device; or any compact disc that has read-only memory
8 and the capacity to store audio, video, or written materials.
9 (4)(2) "Deviate sexual intercourse" means sexual
10 conduct between persons not married to each other consisting
11 of contact between the penis and the anus, the mouth and the
12 penis, or the mouth and the vulva.
13 (5)(3) "Harmful to minors" means that quality of any
14 description, exhibition, presentation, or representation, in
15 whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, or sexual excitement
16 when it:
17 (a) Predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful,
18 or morbid interest of minors;
19 (b) Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in
20 the adult community as a whole with respect to what is
21 suitable material for minors; and
22 (c) Taken as a whole, is without serious literary,
23 artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
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25 A mother's breastfeeding of her baby is not under any
26 circumstance "harmful to minors."
27 (6) "Masochism" means sexual gratification achieved by
28 a person through, or the association of sexual activity with,
29 submission or subjection to physical pain, suffering,
30 humiliation, torture, or death.
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1 (7)(4) "Minor" means any person under the age of 18
2 years.
3 (8)(5) "Nudity" means the showing of the human male or
4 female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a
5 fully opaque covering; or the showing of the female breast
6 with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof
7 below the top of the nipple; or the depiction of covered male
8 genitals in a discernibly turgid state. A mother's
9 breastfeeding of her baby does not under any circumstance
10 constitute "nudity," irrespective of whether or not the nipple
11 is covered during or incidental to feeding.
12 (9)(6) "Person" includes individuals, firms,
13 associations, corporations, and all other groups and
14 combinations.
15 (10)(7) "Obscene" means the status of material which:
16 (a) The average person, applying contemporary
17 community standards, would find, taken as a whole, appeals to
18 the prurient interest;
19 (b) Depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way,
20 sexual conduct as specifically defined herein; and
21 (c) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary,
22 artistic, political, or scientific value.
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24 A mother's breastfeeding of her baby is not under any
25 circumstance "obscene."
26 (11) "Sadism" means sexual gratification achieved
27 through, or the association of sexual activity with, the
28 infliction of physical pain, suffering, humiliation, torture,
29 or death upon another person or an animal.
30 (12)(8) "Sadomasochistic abuse" means flagellation or
31 torture by or upon a person or animal, or the condition of
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1 being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained, for
2 the purpose of deriving sexual satisfaction, or satisfaction
3 brought about as a result of sadistic violence, from
4 inflicting harm on another or receiving such harm oneself.
5 (13)(9) "Sexual battery" means oral, anal, or vaginal
6 penetration by, or union with, the sexual organ of another or
7 the anal or vaginal penetration of another by any other
8 object; however, "sexual battery" does not include an act done
9 for a bona fide medical purpose.
10 (14)(10) "Sexual bestiality" means any sexual act,
11 actual or simulated, between a person and an animal involving
12 the sex organ of the one and the mouth, anus, or vagina of the
13 other.
14 (15)(11) "Sexual conduct" means actual or simulated
15 sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual
16 bestiality, masturbation, or sadomasochistic abuse; actual
17 lewd exhibition of the genitals; actual physical contact with
18 a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area,
19 buttocks, or, if such person is a female, breast; or any act
20 or conduct which constitutes sexual battery or simulates that
21 sexual battery is being or will be committed. A mother's
22 breastfeeding of her baby does not under any circumstance
23 constitute "sexual conduct."
24 (16)(12) "Sexual excitement" means the condition of
25 the human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual
26 stimulation or arousal.
27 (17) "Sexually oriented material" means any book,
28 article, magazine, publication, or written matter of any kind
29 or any drawing, etching, painting, photograph, motion picture
30 film, or sound recording that depicts sexual activity, actual
31 or simulated, involving human beings or human beings and
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1 animals, that exhibits uncovered human genitals or the pubic
2 region in a lewd or lascivious manner, or that exhibits human
3 male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if
4 completely and opaquely covered.
5 (18)(13) "Simulated" means the explicit depiction of
6 conduct described in subsection (15) (11) which creates the
7 appearance of such conduct and which exhibits any uncovered
8 portion of the breasts, genitals, or buttocks.
9 (19) "Specific sexual activities" includes the
10 following sexual activities and the exhibition of the
11 following anatomical areas:
12 (a) Human genitals in the state of sexual stimulation
13 or arousal.
14 (b) Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse,
15 sodomy, cunnilingus, fellatio, or any excretory function, or
16 representation thereof.
17 (c) The fondling or erotic touching of human genitals,
18 the pubic region, the buttocks, or the female breasts.
19 (d) Less than completely and opaquely covered:
20 1. Human genitals or the pubic region.
21 2. Buttocks.
22 3. Female breasts below the top of the areola.
23 4. Human male genitals in a discernably turgid state,
24 even if completely and opaquely covered.
25 Section 2. Section 847.0134, Florida Statutes, is
26 created to read:
27 847.0134 Prohibition of adult entertainment
28 establishment or other adult establishment that displays,
29 sells, or distributes materials harmful to minors within 2,500
30 feet a school.--
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1 (1) Except for those establishments in operation on or
2 before July 1, 2001, an adult entertainment establishment or
3 other adult establishment that sells, rents, loans,
4 distributes, transmits, shows, or exhibits any obscene
5 material, as described in s. 847.0133, or presents live
6 entertainment or a motion picture, slide, or other exhibit
7 that, in whole or in part, depicts nudity, sexual conduct,
8 sexual excitement, sexual battery, sexual bestiality, or
9 sadomasochistic abuse and that is harmful to minors, as
10 described in s. 847.001, may not be located within 2,500 feet
11 of the real property that comprises a public or private
12 elementary school, middle school, or secondary school unless
13 the county or municipality approves the location under
14 proceedings as provided in s. 125.66(4) for counties or s.
15 166.041(3)(c) for municipalities.
16 (2) A violation of this section constitutes a felony
17 of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or
18 s. 775.083.
19 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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22 HOUSE SUMMARY
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Prohibits the location of adult entertainment
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Adds and revises definitions. Provides an exception.
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