(a) Representatives of the City enforcement agencies, including, but not limited to, the City police department, fire department, building department and Greene County Health Department, shall be permitted to a sexually oriented business to determine compliance with their respective departments, at any time it is occupied or open for business.
(1) The failure to allow inspection is unlawful and is a misdemeanor.
(2) A permitee’s or an employee of a permitee’s knowing or intentional refusal to permit such an inspection shall constitute a violation of this section for purposes of license denial, suspension, and/or revocation. This section shall be narrowly construed by the City to authorize reasonable inspections of the licensed premises pursuant to this chapter, but not to authorize a harassing or excessive pattern of inspections.
(b) The provisions of this section do not apply to areas of an adult motel which are currently being rented by a customer for use as a permanent or temporary habitation.
(Ord. 5-07. Passed 2-19-07.)