Saipan Zoning Administrator Steve Tilley, however, said business owners and operators can request for an extension.
Tilley, in an interview, said adult businesses as defined by the Saipan Zoning Law of 2008 should be in the right zone by September this year.
He said the zoning board will start issuing citations in September to adult businesses that are out of the designated zone.
Adult businesses, the zoning law stated, can be established along the stretch of Middle Road from Garapan Central Park all the way to the intersection of Middle Road and Chalan Monsignor Guerrero in San Jose.
Tilley said the Zoning Board has been working with business operators to inform them of these changes.
He said there are some businesses that want to stay where they are.
Tilley said if these owners want to object to the new law, they can organize themselves into a single group and come up with something that can justify why they should be treated differently.
Zoning Board Chairman Henry S. Hofschneider, for his part, said the board is willing to sit down with an organized group of adult businesses owners and listen to their concerns and ideas.
The massage parlors, for example, may form an association and come up with standards or a code of conduct that will help reclassify their businesses.
Aside from having a designated zone, adult businesses in overlay zones are also required to be separated from each other by 500 feet.
There are also building designs and appearance that adult businesses are required to follow.
Their advertisements and displays, for example, should not depict specified anatomical areas of specified sexual activities.
Flashing lights or neon lighting is also prohibited by the new zoning law.
