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NEW YORK CTIY JUDGE BACKS CITY IN REGULATION OF ADULT STORES
By: Andy Powell, Staff Writer - 03-31-10 - 12:00 a.m. PDT
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A judge has sided with the city in its fight to regulate adult bookstores and video stores accused of veiling their X-rated focus to slide by zoning rules.The Manhattan judge's ruling this week opens the way for the city enforce a 2001"60/40" rules.
City officials say an unknown number of businesses could be forced to change their emphasis or move.
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A lawyer for adult businesses that sued over the rules didn't immediately return a telephone call Tuesday evening. City zoning regulations limit where many adult video stores can operate. But the rules don't apply if at least 60 percent of the business' inventory is devoted to non-adult (sexual) items.
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New York City says some X-rated enterprises made little to none--efforts to comply with the 60-percent rule so they could avoid the zoning rules. Selling merchandise like "marital aids" and lingerie which counted as non-adult products, along with a few Kung-Fu, animation movies and Westerns which they found to be hidden in the back of the store.
"Evidence showed that many 60/40 video stores are wolves in sheep's clothing: pretending to be non-adult when they are anything but," said Robin Binder, New York City's lead attorney on the case.
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In this reporter's opinion, we have seen an increase in retail stores being subjected to unheard of scrutiny and we are wondering when this behavior from our city officials will stop.Adult businesses pay taxes just like every other business in the city. JRL will keep on this and will bring you more information as it comes out.
