1. Sexually oriented businesses are classified as follows:
A. Adult arcades;
B. Adult bookstores or adult video stores;
C. Adult cabarets;
D. Adult motels;
E. Adult motion picture theaters;
F. Adult theaters;
G. Escort agencies;
H. Nude model studios; and
I. Sexual encounter centers.
2. The following standards of conduct must be adhered to by entertainers and employees of any sexually oriented business while on the premises:
A. No employee or entertainer shall be unclothed or in such less than opaque and complete attire, costume or clothing so as to expose to view any specified anatomical area, except when such entertainer or employee is separated from any and all customers by a window or other partition which is maintained free of holes or other structural openings which would permit physical contact between such entertainer and employee and any customer within the viewing area and customers are not permitted within four (4) feet of the window or other partition. However, a single opening in such window or partition, allowing for payment for entertainment, by a customer to the entertainer, shall be permitted and at this point customers are permitted within two (2) feet of the window or other partition to allow customers to reach the opening.
B. No employee or entertainer shall perform:
(1) Any specified sexual activities; or
(2) The displaying of any specified anatomical area, except as provided for in paragraph A of this subsection.
C. No employee or entertainer who is either not separated from any and all customers as provided in paragraph A of this subsection, or in an area of the premises not open to customers shall be unclothed or in less than opaque and complete attire, costume or clothing as described in paragraph A of this subsection.
D. No employee or entertainer shall knowingly touch any specified anatomical area of another person, or knowingly permit another person to touch any specified anatomical area of such employee or entertainer; or no employee or entertainer shall knowingly fondle or caress any specified anatomical area of another person, whether such area is clothed, unclothed, covered or exposed, or knowingly permit another person to fondle or caress any specified anatomical area of such employee or entertainer, whether such area is clothed, unclothed, covered or exposed.
E. No entertainer shall be visible from any public place during the hours of his or her employment, or apparent hours of his or her employment, while such entertainer is unclothed or in such attire, costume or clothing to expose to view any specified anatomical area or while performing any entertainment, either while clothed or unclothed.
F. No entertainer shall solicit, demand, or receive any payment or gratuity from any customer for any act prohibited by this chapter.
G. No entertainer shall receive any payment or gratuity from any customer, except through an opening in the window or partition separating such entertainer from a customer, as described in paragraph A of this subsection.
3. At any sexually oriented business, the following are required:
A. A sign, on which upper-case letters are at least two (2) inches high and lower-case letters are at least one (1) inch high, shall be conspicuously displayed in the common area at the principal entrance and shall read as follows:
THIS ADULT ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS |
IS REGULATED BY THE CITY OF ANKENY, IOWA. |
ENTERTAINERS ARE: |
1. Not permitted to engage in any type of sexual conduct on the premises or in prostitution; |
2. Not permitted to be unclothed or in such less than opaque and complete attire, costume or clothing so as to expose to view any portion of the breasts below the top of the areola, or any portion of the pubic region, buttocks and/or genitals, except when separated from customers by the window or partition between the entertainer and customers. |
3. Not permitted to receive any payment or gratuity from any customer, except through an opening in the window or partition separating such entertainer from a customer. |
B. Neither entertainment nor any photograph, drawing, sketch or other pictorial or graphic representation thereof displaying any specified anatomical area shall be visible from a public place.
C. The premises shall be equipped with overhead lighting of sufficient intensity to illuminate every place to which customers are permitted access at an illumination of not less than one foot-candle as measured at the floor level, and such illumination must be maintained at all times that any customer is present in or on the premises.