LIVERMORE FALLS – Residents voted 801-615 to adopt an ordinance to regulate sexually oriented businesses Tuesday.
And, though ballots for a nonbinding straw vote to study moving from Androscoggin County to Franklin County hadn’t been counted Wednesday, the “yes” pile was more than double the “no” pile, Deputy Election Clerk Faith Nichols said.
“The yes’ for sure won,” she said.
The Adult-Only Business Ordinance is 11 pages and requires a person wishing to operate a sexually oriented business to obtain an annual license. It outlines the guidelines to operate such a business and prohibits sexually oriented businesses from being within 1,000 feet of a church, synagogue or other house of religious worship; a school, day-care facility, public park or recreational facility, another sexually oriented business, or within 500 feet of any residence.
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