Ocean City officials disagree. The Council met on Saturday, June 10, to pass an emergency ordinance that prohibits offenses involving public nudity or those in a state of nudity. The ordinance states “there is no constitutional right for an individual to appear in public nude or in a state of nudity. Whatever personal right one has to be nude or in a state of nudity that right becomes subject to government interest and regulation when one seeks to exercise it in public.”
Further, the ordinance reads, “equal protection clause does not demand that things that are different in fact be treated the same in law, nor that a government pretend there are no physiological differences between men and women.”
The council voted unanimously in favor of the emergency ordinance.
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THANK YOU OC!! SAVE our town from political correctness leading to indecency and lack of common sense!!!!! WAY TO GO!!
WAY TO GO OC GOVERNMENT! THANKS FOR TAMING lack of common sense and decency!! YAYYY
Further, the ordinance reads, “equal protection clause does not demand that things that are different in fact be treated the same in law, nor that a government pretend there are no physiological differences between men and women.”
Big expensive court case coming. Haven't we been having this same basic argument over bathrooms and who can use which bathroom for the last year.
Bottom line(or maybe top line) in 3-4 years OC will have to designate a section of beach as topless. Maybe even have to do like they do with the surfers have a different section designated every day.
I didn't see a constitutional right debate coming to reach this decision. Look for it to be challenged, both in the court and on the beach.
BS. What's wrong with women's breasts? Man-boobs ok but not women's? Ridiculous!
Great job Council, maybe no breast, but a great job of balls.
OC just took a step onto a very slippery slope. This is one that their insurer, LGIT, propably won't want to touch with a ten foot pole. The cost to defend against litigation is going to be plenty. New York State did the same thing a couple of decades ago and it didn't go all that well for them.
New York city, the home of the world's best and largest law firms, lost the battle and women can go topless in NYC. OC is going to spend a bunch of taxpayer money for nothing.
Instead of this they should have just instructed the PD to arrest for disorderly conduct. This is what they are doing in municipalities where going topless is legal. The disorderly charge almost always stands.
Ask how it worked out for them with the boardwalk performers, some hundreds of thousands of dollars later ...
2:55 Right you are. Has OC ever won a lawsuit?
Great to see OC stand up to the ACLU.
Maybe if Frosh wasn't so busy worrying about what Trump may do he would worry about what is going on in his own state. He has had this case for way to long and no decision has been made. They need to fire his butt for not doing his job!
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" Anonymous said...
New York city, the home of the world's best and largest law firms, lost the battle and women can go topless in NYC. OC is going to spend a bunch of taxpayer money for nothing.
June 10, 2017 at 2:39 PM"
One woman. She was charged with disorderly conduct and it didn't stick so she sued for false arrest and won an insignificant amount of money-Less then $50,000.
There are many more who have tried going topless and the disorderly charge has held.
There is no question that a female can go topless if she is identifying as a male.
Children in a family resort town, should not have to be subjected to naked women because they wanted to be treated like men! Go to a nude beach! This everything has to be the same mentality is getting old!
One thing I have come to realize after living on the shore for almost 20 years and now living in a different state for 4 is how inept anyone on the shore is in regards to simple things....living in Florida we have many beaches were it is ok to be topless or more....not an eye is batted....and no big deal is made.....the shore I have come to realize does nothing with any scale of intelligence....look around folks....I'm not wrong.....
Good for OC. Smart move too, they would have lost a lot of business because decent families will not subject their children to seeing bare chested women.
Can't wait to see lawyer Peter Wimbrow taking this BS to court!
Big deal- they are female breasts- they show them off in many European beaches- we are just too uptight here.
Another one for the Time Capsule.
This is one of those events that some years from now people will look back upon and wonder "what the hell were they thinking?"
Who remembers the law that men had to wear shirts on the boardwalk at ALL times?
You think that's ancient history?
The old-timers will remember that that law was on the books AND strictly enforced up until about 1968 or '69. Not so long ago.
I'm paraphrasing here, but the gist of it was "men had to wear a shirt while on the boardwalk, and anywhere west of the edge of the boardwalk throughout Ocean City."
There was also a law against carrying a blanket on the boardwalk around the mid-'60's.
I'll give topless for the ladies about 10 years out.
European countries have done it for decades, notably France, and in Miami, Key West, and many others.
It hasn't ended civilization at those places...
7:50, it should show you that the ones that live here care a little about modesty and leaving something for the imagination.
To all who are saying it's common in France or anywhere else in Europe that is not true. It is not common at all. I spent half my life there (born in France, lived in Monaco, spent many summers all over Europe)and since being in the US have made nearly 200 trips back. Very few people go topless in Europe and it is mostly Americans. Europeans look at it as uncivilized and low class.
How about Miami?
In all NYS state parks you can go topless, either sex.
Spare me the B.S.....you folks on the shore are clueless when it comes to tourism...that's why it has been decreasing for decades....the lawsuit that will now be brought against the town will finish it...and you can all pat yourselves on the back.
Actually key west doesn't allow topless ladies ....
9:43 The only thing that affects tourism in OC is the economy.
Whoa 1016, truer statement would be: "The only thing that affects tourism in OC is CITY HALL." Knee jerk is a commonality each/every year with advisement on legal issues being the same source - Guy Ayers. Maybe its past time for Guy Guy and his girth to retire! I know there's a Bunting lawyer out there who's a bit better in tune and would always spend spend spend the taxpayer's dollar - then just SETTLE!!!
"Decreasing"?
Yeah... Nobody come here anymore. It's too crowded.
Not as much as you might think (on the economy).
I would put "weather" above economy.
When times are good, people want to come to the beach and have some fun. When times are bad, they need to come to the beach and have some fun.
You are correct. Permitted at many waterfront hotels - not the public beaches. But it has never been enforced.
Actually it is heavily enforced and no longer permitted...and not at the waterfront hotels...all three of them...do you even know anything about key west?
Look at the people who are coming here... not the families who spend real money...look at the crime and the trash that shows up on the boardwalk....OC is done...it's a has been tourist trap sadly ...run into the ground by greed...
Women who go topless are not doing it because they don't see the big deal, they are doing it for attention. I was raised to believe there is no such thing as a woman with too much class and nothing compares to a classy woman. If it delights a woman to turn the heads of my sons or that of my husband, go for it. But only the bottom dwellers with little to offer will value you. If your right to go nude is more important to you than a young family's comfort, that shows your integrity.
Any woman who walks around topless in public has ZERO self-respect. Something is wrong in her head. Sad.
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