Discussion and Review of Tiffin Municipal Code Revisions – Preparation for Setting the Public Hearing — Tiffin City Code - DRAFT

CHAPTER 165 ZONING REGULATIONS (4) Ground and handheld sparkling devices, including multiple tube ground and handheld sparkling devices that are manufactured in accordance with American Pyrotechnics Association Standard 87-1 Section 87-1 and Section 3.5. (5) Ground spinners. (6) Illuminating torches. (7) Toy smoke devices that are not classified as novelties pursuant to American Pyrotechnics Association Standard 87-1, Section 3.2. (8) Wheels. (9) Wire or dipped sparklers that are not classified as novelties pursuant to American Pyrotechnics Association Standard 87-1, Section 3.2. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 727.2) B. “Security hours” means the period of time from one hour after closing to one hour prior to opening of a non-residential establishment. C. “Self-service storage” means a use that provides separate indoor storage areas for individual or business uses. The indoor storage areas are designed to allow private access by the tenant for storing and removing personal property. The use may include security and leasing offices. Examples include mini-warehouses and mini-storage facilities. D. “Setback” means the distance required to obtain the front, side, or rear yard open space provisions of this Code. All measurements are taken from the structure’s foundation or from the exterior wall at grade level. E. “Sexually-oriented businesses” means an establishment, including bookstores, bars, restaurants, movie theaters, and arcades where films are shown, or videotapes, magazines, books, or other printed matters are sold, or live performances take place, that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or exposure of “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas” as defined below. Massage parlors where services are not administered by a licensed practitioner, chiropractor, acupuncturist, therapist, or similar person licensed by the State are also included in this definition. (1) Specified Sexual Activities: Patently offensive acts, exhibitions, representations, depictions, or descriptions of: a. Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; b. Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast; c. Intrusion, however slight, actual, or stimulated by an object, any part of an animal’s body or any part of a person’s body into the genital or anal openings of a person’s body; d. Cunnilingus, fellatio, analingus, masturbation, bestiality, lewd exhibition of genitals or excretory function, actual or simulated; CODE OF ORDINANCES, TIFFIN, IOWA - 1480 -