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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 WHEREAS, based upon the experience and research of
11 other counties and cities and the personal observation of the
12 legislators in their own districts, the Legislature finds that
13 adult entertainment establishments cause adverse affects in
14 and around these establishments, and
15 WHEREAS, relevant studies demonstrate a significant
16 increase in crime in areas where adult entertainment
17 establishments are located, and
18 WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has recognized
19 the adverse secondary effects caused by adult entertainment
20 establishments in Renton v. Playtime Theatres, 475 U.S. 41
21 (1986) and Erie v. Pap's, 529 U.S. 277 (2000), and
22 WHEREAS, prohibiting adult entertainment establishments
23 that show or exhibit material obscene or harmful to minors
24 near public or private elementary schools, middle schools, or
25 secondary schools will serve to protect minors from the
26 adverse effects of the activities that accompany such
27 establishments, and
28 WHEREAS, the Legislature does not intend to impinge on
29 the First Amendment rights of free speech by limiting the
30 location of these establishments to keep them away from
31 schools where minors will be present, NOW, THEREFORE,
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1 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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3 Section 1. Section 847.001, Florida Statutes, is
4 amended to read:
5 847.001 Definitions.--When used in this chapter:
6 (1) "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older.
7 (2) "Adult entertainment establishment" means the
8 following terms as defined:
9 (a) "Adult bookstore" means any corporation,
10 partnership, or business of any kind that restricts or
11 purports to restrict admission only to adults, that has as
12 part of its stock books, magazines, or other periodicals or
13 videos, discs, or other graphic media, and that offers, sells,
14 provides, or rents for a fee any sexually oriented material.
15 (b) "Adult theater" means an enclosed building or an
16 enclosed space within a building used for presenting either
17 films, live plays, dances, or other performances that are
18 distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter
19 depicting, describing, or relating to specific sexual
20 activities for observation by patrons and that restricts or
21 purports to restrict admission only to adults.
22 (c) "Unlicensed massage establishment" means any
23 business or enterprise that offers, sells, or provides, or
24 that holds itself out as offering, selling, or providing
25 massages, that include bathing, physical massage, rubbing,
26 kneading, anointing, stroking, manipulating, or other tactile
27 stimulation of the human body by either male or female
28 employees or attendants, by hand or by any electrical or
29 mechanical device, on or off the premises. "Unlicensed
30 massage establishment" does not include establishments
31 licensed under s. 480.043 that routinely provide medical
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1 services by state-licensed health care practitioners and
2 massage therapists licensed under s. 480.041.
3 (d) "Special cabaret" means any business that features
4 persons who engage in specific sexual activities for
5 observation by patrons, and that restricts or purports to
6 restrict admission only to adults.
7 (3)(1) "Computer" means an electronic, magnetic,
8 optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing
9 device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions
10 and includes any data storage facility or communications
11 facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with
12 such device. The term also includes: any on-line service,
13 Internet service, or local bulletin board; any electronic
14 storage device, including a floppy disk or other magnetic
15 storage device; or any compact disc that has read-only memory
16 and the capacity to store audio, video, or written materials.
17 (4)(2) "Deviate sexual intercourse" means sexual
18 conduct between persons not married to each other consisting
19 of contact between the penis and the anus, the mouth and the
20 penis, or the mouth and the vulva.
21 (5)(3) "Harmful to minors" means that quality of any
22 description, exhibition, presentation, or representation, in
23 whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, or sexual excitement
24 when it:
25 (a) Predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful,
26 or morbid interest of minors;
27 (b) Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in
28 the adult community as a whole with respect to what is
29 suitable material for minors; and
30 (c) Taken as a whole, is without serious literary,
31 artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
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2 A mother's breastfeeding of her baby is not under any
3 circumstance "harmful to minors."
4 (6) "Masochism" means sexual gratification achieved by
5 a person through, or the association of sexual activity with,
6 submission or subjection to physical pain, suffering,
7 humiliation, torture, or death.
8 (7)(4) "Minor" means any person under the age of 18
9 years.
10 (8)(5) "Nudity" means the showing of the human male or
11 female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a
12 fully opaque covering; or the showing of the female breast
13 with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof
14 below the top of the nipple; or the depiction of covered male
15 genitals in a discernibly turgid state. A mother's
16 breastfeeding of her baby does not under any circumstance
17 constitute "nudity," irrespective of whether or not the nipple
18 is covered during or incidental to feeding.
19 (9)(6) "Person" includes individuals, firms,
20 associations, corporations, and all other groups and
21 combinations.
22 (10)(7) "Obscene" means the status of material which:
23 (a) The average person, applying contemporary
24 community standards, would find, taken as a whole, appeals to
25 the prurient interest;
26 (b) Depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way,
27 sexual conduct as specifically defined herein; and
28 (c) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary,
29 artistic, political, or scientific value.
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1 A mother's breastfeeding of her baby is not under any
2 circumstance "obscene."
3 (11) "Sadism" means sexual gratification achieved
4 through, or the association of sexual activity with, the
5 infliction of physical pain, suffering, humiliation, torture,
6 or death upon another person or an animal.
7 (12)(8) "Sadomasochistic abuse" means flagellation or
8 torture by or upon a person or animal, or the condition of
9 being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained, for
10 the purpose of deriving sexual satisfaction, or satisfaction
11 brought about as a result of sadistic violence, from
12 inflicting harm on another or receiving such harm oneself.
13 (13)(9) "Sexual battery" means oral, anal, or vaginal
14 penetration by, or union with, the sexual organ of another or
15 the anal or vaginal penetration of another by any other
16 object; however, "sexual battery" does not include an act done
17 for a bona fide medical purpose.
18 (14)(10) "Sexual bestiality" means any sexual act,
19 actual or simulated, between a person and an animal involving
20 the sex organ of the one and the mouth, anus, or vagina of the
21 other.
22 (15)(11) "Sexual conduct" means actual or simulated
23 sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual
24 bestiality, masturbation, or sadomasochistic abuse; actual
25 lewd exhibition of the genitals; actual physical contact with
26 a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area,
27 buttocks, or, if such person is a female, breast; or any act
28 or conduct which constitutes sexual battery or simulates that
29 sexual battery is being or will be committed. A mother's
30 breastfeeding of her baby does not under any circumstance
31 constitute "sexual conduct."
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1 (16)(12) "Sexual excitement" means the condition of
2 the human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual
3 stimulation or arousal.
4 (17) "Sexually oriented material" means any book,
5 article, magazine, publication, or written matter of any kind
6 or any drawing, etching, painting, photograph, motion picture
7 film, or sound recording that depicts sexual activity, actual
8 or simulated, involving human beings or human beings and
9 animals, that exhibits uncovered human genitals or the pubic
10 region in a lewd or lascivious manner, or that exhibits human
11 male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if
12 completely and opaquely covered.
13 (18)(13) "Simulated" means the explicit depiction of
14 conduct described in subsection (15) (11) which creates the
15 appearance of such conduct and which exhibits any uncovered
16 portion of the breasts, genitals, or buttocks.
17 (19) "Specific sexual activities" includes the
18 following sexual activities and the exhibition of the
19 following anatomical areas:
20 (a) Human genitals in the state of sexual stimulation
21 or arousal.
22 (b) Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse,
23 sodomy, cunnilingus, fellatio, or any excretory function, or
24 representation thereof.
25 (c) The fondling or erotic touching of human genitals,
26 the pubic region, the buttocks, or the female breasts.
27 (d) Less than completely and opaquely covered:
28 1. Human genitals or the pubic region.
29 2. Buttocks.
30 3. Female breasts below the top of the areola.
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1 4. Human male genitals in a discernably turgid state,
2 even if completely and opaquely covered.
3 Section 2. Section 847.0134, Florida Statutes, is
4 created to read:
5 847.0134 Prohibition of adult entertainment
6 establishment that displays, sells, or distributes materials
7 harmful to minors within 2,500 feet a school.--
8 (1) Except for those establishments that are legally
9 operating or have been granted a permit from a local
10 government to operate as an adult entertainment establishment
11 on or before July 1, 2001, an adult entertainment
12 establishment that sells, rents, loans, distributes,
13 transmits, shows, or exhibits any obscene material, as
14 described in s. 847.0133, or presents live entertainment or a
15 motion picture, slide, or other exhibit that, in whole or in
16 part, depicts nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement,
17 sexual battery, sexual bestiality, or sadomasochistic abuse
18 and that is harmful to minors, as described in s. 847.001, may
19 not be located within 2,500 feet of the real property that
20 comprises a public or private elementary school, middle
21 school, or secondary school unless the county or municipality
22 approves the location under proceedings as provided in s.
23 125.66(4) for counties or s. 166.041(3)(c) for municipalities.
24 (2) A violation of this section constitutes a felony
25 of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or
26 s. 775.083.
27 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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