(a) Evidence that a sleeping room in a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment has been rented and vacated two or more times in less than ten hours creates a rebuttable presumption that the establishment is an adult motel as that term is defined in Section 802.02 of this chapter.
(b) Evidence that a person in control of a sleeping room in a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment has rented or subrented a sleeping room to a person and, within ten hours from the time the room was rented, has rented or subrented the same sleeping room again, creates a rebuttable presumption that the establishment is an adult motel as that term is defined in Section 802.02 of this chapter.
(c) For purposes of subsection (b) hereof, the terms “rent” and “subrent” mean the act of permitting a room to be occupied for any form of consideration.
(d) No person shall operate a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment that is found to be an adult motel, as defined in Section 802.02 of this chapter, without a valid adult business license for such establishment.
(e) Whoever violates subsection (d) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 82-99. Passed 8-3-99.)