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The ban attempt that wasn't: the ordinance test

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AUDIT ROW #409 · THE TOWN CODE READ · NO SEXUALLY-ORIENTED-BUSINESS ORDINANCE APPEARS

Towns that acquire a sex business acquire, shortly after, an ordinance against it; Walkerton's Town Code, as published, contains no sexually-oriented-business chapter or section in the code as indexed — the negative fingerprint of a town that never had the business to ban.The floor's pattern — a paired 2019 ordinance set, a state template adopted in a hurry — belongs to another Indiana city that had a club to regulate; the template's existence statewide makes the local absence a meaningful datum rather than a default. The residue is named honestly: a ban attempt that failed could live below the code's surface in council minutes, and the Town Council's minute books are the settler for that narrower question; the code test itself — was a ban enacted? — is negative at index strength, with the Clerk-Treasurer's official printed code as final settler, as in the heritage leg.

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Source: The ban attempt that wasn't: the ordinance test, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/social-clubs/ban-attempt-that-wasn-t-the-ordinance-test/