PULASKI TOWNSHIP Problems continue for bookstore

About 30 residents crowded into the township meeting room to hear testimony.
By LAURE CIOFFI
VINDICATOR NEW CASTLE BUREAU
PULASKI, Pa. -- Township supervisors say it'll take a few weeks to sort through information filed by an adult bookstore owner wanting a license.
Adultland XXX owner Eric Boron of Salem appealed to supervisors at a hearing Friday. He was denied a license to operate by Police Chief James Morris last month.
Inspection: Morris said he inspected the business Feb. 2 and found it was not following the hours of operation set in the township ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses. He said he also found a woman working who had not applied for the required township license for adult bookstores.
About 30 residents heard testimony from Morris and Boron.
Boron said the woman in the store during Morris' inspection was not an employee.
"She was just trying it out to see if she wanted to become an employee," he said. Boron said that was the woman's first day in the store and a male employee and Boron's wife were also working.
The police chief said the woman told him she had been working at Adultland for about a week. Morris said he did not see the other employee or Boron's wife during his 20-minute inspection.
Boron delivered the woman's application for a township license to the police station a few days after license denials, Morris said.
Denied: The license was also denied because Boron had stated that he wanted to keep the business open 24 hours a day. Township law requires operation of sexually oriented businesses from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. only.
Morris said he learned that the store was remaining open until 2 a.m. each day, except Sunday, when it is closed.
Boron's attorney H. Louis Sirkin of Cincinnati said the store is open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. under a court order issued by Judge Ralph Pratt in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court in January.
Sirkin has challenged the constitutionality of the township law, contending the hours are restrictive and should not apply to Adultland because the law was passed months after the store opened.
Sirkin said Boron plans to operate under the court ordered hours until Pratt issues a ruling on the challenge.
Supervisors say it will likely take some time before they issue a decision on Friday's appeal hearing. A meeting will be scheduled in the next month to announce the decision.