LANCASTER : Council Drops Ban on Sexual Devices
The Lancaster City Council, fulfilling an earlier promise, voted 5-0 Monday night to delete a ban on the sale of dildos and other sexual devices from the city’s new law regulating sexually oriented businesses.
The council two months ago had agreed to delete the clause in exchange for a promise by the owner of the only sexually oriented business in the city to drop his campaign to force a referendum on the entire ordinance.
Under the surviving provisions of the law, future sex businesses are restricted to locating in two industrial areas of the city. The city has yet to determine whether the sole existing business, Fun Zone Gifts, is affected by the law and whether it thus should be required to relocate to one of those areas.
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