(a) Any person desiring to obtain a permit, or renewal of an existing permit, to act as an outcall dancer, shall make application to the finance director. When submitting such application for a permit or renewal of a permit, a nonrefundable fee, as established by resolution of the city council, shall be paid to the department of finance to defray the cost of investigation and report required by this chapter. The permit and issuance or renewal fees required under this chapter shall be in addition to any license, permit or fee required under any other chapter of this code.
(b) Neither the filing of an application for a permit, or renewal thereof, nor the payment of an application or renewal fee, shall authorize a person to act as an outcall dancer until such permit has been granted or renewed.
(c) Each applicant for an outcall dancer permit, or renewal thereof, shall furnish the information required by subsections (c)(1) through (c)(12) of Section 4.18.070 of this chapter, and shall, in addition, furnish the following information:
(1) Satisfactory evidence that the applicant is employed, self-employed, or has been offered employment by an outcall dance service holding a valid permit issued by the city, including the name and address of the employer or prospective employer and the fact that such employment or continued employment is contingent upon the issuance of said permit; and
(2) Such other identification and information as the finance director may require in order to discover the truth of the matters required to be set forth in the application.
(d) The finance director may require the applicant to appear in person at the Los Angeles County sheriff's department, Norwalk Station, in order to be photographed or fingerprinted.
(e) The sheriff's department shall have a reasonable period of time in which to investigate the application and background of the applicant. The sheriff's department shall, within sixty days after the date of the filing of the application, render a written recommendation to the finance director as to approval or denial of the application for the permit or renewal thereof.
(f) The finance director, within ten business days after receiving the application and aforementioned recommendation from the sheriff's department, shall grant the permit, or renewal thereof, only if he or she finds that all of the requirements of subsections (h)(1) through (h)(3) of Section 4.18.070 of this chapter have been met and, in addition, if he or she finds that the following additional requirements have been met:
(1) The applicant is at least eighteen years of age;
(2) The applicant has not been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony crime within the previous ten years involving fraud or sexual misconduct including, but not limited to, all offenses listed in Penal Code Section 290, Penal Code Sections 311.2 through 311.7, Penal Code Sections 314 through 318, Penal Code Section 647, subsections (a), (b), (d), (h) or (k), Penal Code Section 647.6, or any offenses involving pimping, pandering, prostitution or lewd conduct.
(g) If the finance director does not find that all of the requirements set forth in subsection (f) of this section have been met, he or she shall deny the application for the permit or renewal thereof. In the event the application for the permit, or renewal thereof, is denied, written notice of such denial shall be given within ten business days to the applicant specifying the ground or grounds of such denial. Notice of denial of the application for the permit, or renewal thereof, shall be deemed to have been served when it is personally served on the applicant or when deposited in the United States mail with postage prepaid and addressed to the applicant at his or her residence address as set forth in the application for the permit or renewal thereof. Any applicant, whose application for an outcall dancer permit, or renewal thereof, has been denied by the finance director, may appeal such denial as provided in Chapter 4.04 of this title.
(h) When any change occurs regarding the written information required by subsection (c) of this section, the permit holder shall give written notification of such change to the finance director within five business days after such change.
(Ord. 532A § 3 (part), 1999).