(A) No patron, employee, or any other person shall knowingly or intentionally, in a sexually oriented business, appear in a state of nudity or engage in a specified sexual activity.
(B) No person shall knowingly or intentionally, in a sexually oriented business, appear in a semi-nude condition unless the person is an employee who, while semi-nude, remains at least six feet from all patrons and on a stage at least 18 inches from the floor in a room of at least 1,000 square feet.
(C) No employee who appears semi-nude in a sexually oriented business shall knowingly or intentionally touch a customer or the clothing of a customer on the premises of a sexually oriented business. No customer shall knowingly or intentionally touch such an employee or the clothing of such an employee on the premises of a sexually oriented business.
(D) No person shall possess, use, or consume alcoholic beverages on the premises of a sexually oriented business.
(E) No person shall knowingly or recklessly allow a person under the age of 18 years to be or remain on the premises of a sexually oriented business.
(F) No operator of a sexually oriented business shall knowingly or recklessly allow a room in the sexually oriented business to be simultaneously occupied by any patron and any other employee who is semi-nude or who appears semi-nude on the premises of the sexually oriented business, unless an operator of the sexually oriented business is present in the same room.
(G) No operator or licensee of a sexually oriented business shall violate the regulations in this section or knowingly or recklessly allow an employee or any other person to violate the regulations in this section. Without limiting the scope of the preceding sentence, an operator shall be deemed to have recklessly allowed another person to violate a regulation if, at the time of the violation, the operator failed to have an employee on duty and situated in at least one operator's station having a direct line of sight to the area of the establishment where the violation occurred.
(H) A sign in a form to be prescribed by the County Administrator, and summarizing the provisions of divisions (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E), shall be posted near the entrance of the sexually oriented business in such a manner as to be clearly visible to patrons upon entry. No person shall cover, obstruct, or obscure said sign.
(Ord. 07-06, passed 3-13-07; Am. Ord. 2023-15, passed 7-11-23) Penalty, see § 111.99