535.99 PENALTY.
   (a)    Whoever engages in, conducts or carries on, or permits to be engaged in, conducted or carried on in the City, the cooperation of an adult entertainment business without first having obtained a permit from the City is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (b)    Whoever violates any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(1)    If the owner or operator of an adult entertainment business located in the City of Bellevue, knowingly:
A.    Refuses to allow appropriate state or local authorities, including police officers, access to the adult entertainment business for any building, health or safety inspection, or any other inspection conducted to ensure compliance with the regulations adopted by the City under this chapter;
B.    Operate during the hours designated in Section 535.12(a);
C.    Employ any person under the age of eighteen;
D.    Establish or operate an adult entertainment business within 1,500 feet from the boundaries of a parcel of real estate having situated on it a school, church, library, public park, tavern, bar, a "sexually oriented business" or another adult entertainment business; or within 1,000 feet from the boundaries of any residential district.
(2)   If an employee of the establishment, in the performance of his or her duties, does any of the following:
A.    Places his or her hand upon, touches with any part of his or her body, fondles in any manner, or massages the genitals, pubic area or buttocks of any other person or the breast of any female, or, if the employee is a female, of any other female, for the purpose of sexual stimulation;
B.    Performs, offers or agrees to perform any act that would require the touching of the genitals, pubic region or buttocks of any other person or the breasts of any female or, if the employee is a female, of any other female, for the purpose of sexual stimulation;
C.    Uncover the genitals, pubic area or buttocks of any other person or the breast of any females or, if the employee is a female, of any other female.
            (Ord. 45-97. Passed 8-11-97.)