(A) A person who operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business, other than an adult motel, which exhibits on the premises in a viewing room of less than 150 square feet of floor space, a film, motion picture, video cassette, video reproduction, slide, laser or compact disc, other visual reproduction or live entertainment which depicts specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, shall comply with the following requirements.
(1) Upon application for a sexually oriented business license, the application shall be accompanied by a diagram of the premises showing a plan thereof specifying the location of one or more manager’s stations and the location of all overhead lighting fixtures and designating any portion of the premises in which patrons will not be permitted. A manager’s station may not exceed 32 square feet of floor area. The diagram shall also designate the place at which the permit will be conspicuously posted, if granted. A professionally prepared diagram in the nature of an engineer’s or architect’s blueprint shall not be required; however, each diagram should be oriented to the north or to some designated street or object and should be drawn to a designated scale or with marked dimensions sufficient to show the various internal dimensions of all areas of the interior of the premises to an accuracy of plus or minus six inches. The foregoing diagram for renewal applications may be waived if the applicant adopts a diagram that was previously submitted and certifies that the configuration of the premises has not been altered since it was prepared.
(2) The application shall be sworn to be true and correct by the applicant.
(3) No alteration in the configuration or location of a manager’s station may be made without the prior approval of the City Zoning Administrator.
(4) It is the duty of the licensee and operator of the premises to ensure that at least one employee is on duty and situated in each manager’s station at all times that any patron is present inside the premises.
(5) The interior of the premises shall be configured in a manner that there is an unobstructed view from a manager’s station of every area of the premises, including the inside of the viewing rooms, to which any patron is permitted access for any purposes excluding the insides of restrooms. Restrooms may not contain video reproduction equipment. If the premises has two or more manager’s stations designated, then the interior of the premises shall be configured in a manner that there is an unobstructed view of each area of the premises, including the inside of viewing rooms, to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose excluding the insides of restrooms, from at least one of the manager’s stations. The view required in this division must be a direct line of sight from the manager’s station. The entrances to viewing rooms shall be open and shall not have a door, curtain or other closure device, and the insides of all viewing shall have an unobstructed, direct line of sight view from the manager’s station.
(6) It shall be the be the duty of the licensee and operator, and it shall also be the duty of any agents and employees present in the premises to ensure that the view area as specified in division (A)(5) above remains unobstructed by any doors, wall, curtains, partitions, merchandise, display racks or other materials at all times, and to ensure that no patron is permitted access to any area of the premises which has been designated as an area in which patrons will not be permitted in the application filed pursuant to division (A)(1) above.
(7) The premises shall be equipped with overhead lighting fixtures of sufficient intensity to illuminate every place to which patrons are permitted access at an illumination of not less than five candles as measured at the floor level.
(8) It shall be the duty of the licensee and operator and it shall also be the duty of any agents and employees present in the premises to ensure that the illumination described above, is maintained at all times that any patron is present in the premises.
(9) No viewing room may be occupied by more than one person at any time.
(10) No person shall make or attempt to make an opening of any kind between viewing rooms.
(11) It shall be the duty of the licensee and the operator and it shall also be the duty of any agents or employees present in the premises to ensure that no openings of any kind shall exist between viewing rooms and that all viewing rooms shall be regularly inspected during each business day so as to determine if any openings or holes exist.
(B) A person having a duty under divisions (A)(1) through (A)(11) above commits an offense if he or she knowingly fails to fulfill that duty.
(Ord. 822, passed 4-26-2005) Penalty, see § 119.99