(A) Distance requirement for live entertainment. All performers, dancers and persons providing live entertainment distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas in the licensed facility or in areas adjoining the licensed facility where the entertainment can be seen by patrons of the licensed facility shall remain at all times a minimum distance of ten feet from all patrons, customers or spectators and shall dance or provide entertainment on a platform intended for that purpose, which shall be raised at least two feet from the level of the floor on which patrons or spectators are located.
(B) Interaction with patrons. No dancer, performer or person providing live entertainment distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas in the licensed facility or in areas adjoining the licensed facility where the entertainment can be seen by patrons of the licensed facility shall fondle or caress any spectator or patron.
(C) Gratuity prohibition. No customers, spectator or patron of a licensed facility shall directly pay or give any gratuity to any dancer or performer, and no dancer or performer shall solicit any pay or gratuity from any patron or spectator.
(D) Hours of operation. Except for licensees for a sexually oriented motel, a licensee shall not be open for business to the public during the following hours on the following days: Monday through Sunday; not open before 8:00 a.m. nor after 1:00 a.m.
(E) Maintenance of order. A licensee under this chapter shall be responsible for the conduct of the business being operated and shall not allow any illegal activity to take place on or near the licensed premises, including but not limited to prostitution, public indecency, indecent exposure, disorderly conduct or the sale or use of illegal drugs. Every act or omission by an employee or independent contractor of the licensee constituting a violation of this chapter shall be deemed the act or omission of the licensee if the act or omission occurs either with the authorization, knowledge or approval of the licensee, or as a result of the licensee's negligent failure to supervise the employee's or independent contractor's conduct.
(Prior Code, § 6.42, Subd. 12) (Ord. 188, effective 10-2-1998)