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Bill Text

A2783 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2783 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman BRIAN E. RUMPF

District 9 (Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the regulation of sexually oriented 
businesses, amending and supplementing P.L.1995, c.230 and amending various 
sections of statutory law.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� (New section)� This act 
shall be known and may be cited as the �Defense of Community Standards Act.�

���� 2.��� (New section)� The 
Legislature finds and declares:

���� Sexually oriented businesses 
require special supervision from the public safety agencies of this State in 
order to protect and preserve the health, safety, morals and welfare of the 
patrons, contractors and employees of these businesses, as well as the residents 
of the State;

���� There is convincing documented 
evidence that sexually oriented businesses, because of their very nature, have 
a deleterious effect on both the existing businesses around them and the 
surrounding residential areas adjacent to them and contribute to increased 
crime, particularly in the overnight hours, and the downgrading of property 
values;

���� The Legislature desires to 
minimize and control these adverse effects in order to protect the health, 
safety and welfare of the State�s residents, to protect the State�s residents 
from increased crime, to preserve the quality of life, local property values 
and the character of neighborhoods surrounding sexually oriented businesses, 
and to deter the spread of blight;

���� The reduction of crime and the 
preservation of the aesthetic and commercial character of the neighborhoods 
surrounding sexually oriented businesses is substantially in the public 
interest, so it is appropriate for the Legislature to provide municipalities 
with the authority to exert limited controls on the time, place and manner of 
their operation.

���� 3.��� Section 3 of P.L.1995, 
c.230 (C.2C:34-7) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� a.� Except as provided 
in a municipal zoning ordinance adopted pursuant to N.J.S.2C:34-2, no person 
shall operate a sexually oriented business within [1,000] 2,500 feet of any 
existing sexually oriented business, or any church, synagogue, temple or other 
place of public worship, or any elementary or secondary school or any school 
bus stop, or any municipal or county playground or place of public resort and 
recreation, or any hospital or any child care center, or within [1,000] 2,500 
feet of any area zoned for residential use.� This subsection shall not apply to 
a sexually oriented business already lawfully operating on the effective date 
of this act where another sexually oriented business, an elementary or 
secondary school or school bus stop, or any municipal or county playground or 
place of public resort and recreation, or any hospital or any child care 
center, is subsequently established within [1,000] 2,500 
feet, or a residential district or residential lot is subsequently established 
within [1,000] 2,500 
feet.

���� b.��� Every sexually oriented 
business shall be surrounded by a perimeter buffer of at least 50 feet in width 
with plantings, fence, or other physical divider along the outside of the 
perimeter sufficient to impede the view of the interior of the premises in which 
the business is located.� The municipality may, by ordinance, require the 
perimeter buffer to meet additional requirements or standards. This subsection 
shall not apply to a sexually oriented business already lawfully operating on 
the effective date of this act.

���� c.���� No sexually oriented 
business shall display more than two exterior signs, consisting of one 
identification sign and one sign giving notice that the premises are off limits 
to minors.� The identification sign shall be no more than 40 square feet in 
size.

���� d.��� A person who violates 
this section is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

(cf: P.L.1999, c.41, s.1)

���� 4.��� R.S.40:48-1 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 40:48-1.� Ordinances; general 
purpose.� The governing body of every municipality may make, amend, repeal and 
enforce ordinances to:

���� Finances and property.� 1.� 
Manage, regulate and control the finances and property, real and personal, of 
the municipality;

���� Contracts and contractor's 
bonds.� 2.� Prescribe the form and manner of execution and approval of all 
contracts to be executed by the municipality and of all bonds to be given to 
it;

���� Officers and employees; 
duties, terms and salaries.� 3.� Prescribe and define, except as otherwise 
provided by law, the duties and terms of office or employment, of all officers 
and employees; and to provide for the employment and compensation