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3.10.010   Definitions.
   As used in this chapter:
   A.    "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association.
   B.    "Figure model studio" means any premises where there is conducted the business of furnishing, providing, or procuring figure models who pose for the purpose of being observed or viewed by any person or being sketched, painted, drawn, sculptured, photographed, or otherwise similarly depicted in the nude or seminude before persons who pay a fee, or other consideration, compensation, or gratuity, for the right or opportunity to so depict a figure model, or for admission to, or for permission to remain upon or as a condition of remaining upon, the premises.
   C.    "Figure model studio" does not include:
      1.    Any studio which is operated by any State college, or public junior college or school wherein the person operating it has met the requirements as approved by the Department of Education for the State of California for the issuance or conferring and is in fact authorized thereunder to issue and confer a diploma or honorary diploma; or
      2.    Any studio which is a part of an institution receiving financial support in whole or in part, through contributions of the Federal or any State, County or City governments; or
      3.    Any premises where there is conducted the business of furnishing, providing, or procuring figure models solely for any studio described in subdivisions 1 and 2 of this subsection C;
      4.    Any premises required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 3.08 of this code.
   D.    "Figure models" mean any person, male or female, who poses to be observed, viewed, sketched, painted, drawn, sculptured, photographed, or otherwise similarly depicted.
   E.    "Nude" or "seminude" means:
      1.    Completely without clothing or covering; or
      2.    With partial clothing or covering with any pubic area exposed or with any portion of the crease of the buttocks exposed; or
      3.    The exposing of any portion of either breast below a straight line so drawn that both nipples and all portions of both breasts which have a different pigmentation than that of a main portion of a breast are below such a straight line; or
      4.    The wearing of any type of clothing so that those portions of the anatomy described in subdivisions 2 and 3 of this subsection E may be observed.
(Ord. 2784 § 5, 1991; Ord. 2074 (part), 1975).