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All sexual oriented businesses classified under § 112.03 shall comply with the following requirements.
(A) Except as otherwise provided by laws, which may be more restrictive, no owner or operator of an establishment shall knowingly permit a person under 18 years of age to be employed by or to enter the establishment.
(B) An establishment must have an employee on duty at all times the business is open and must be positioned at a station in the premises located in such a manner that the entrance can be monitored at all times. Any person who reasonably appears to be under the age of 18 discovered in the establishment shall be immediately escorted from the premises.
(C) No establishment, except for an adult motel, shall remain open at any time between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
(Ord. passed 6-14-2005)
(A) A person who operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business, other than an adult motel, which exhibits on the premises in a viewing room of less than 150 square feet of floor space, a film, videocassette, live entertainment or other video reproduction which depicts specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, shall comply with the following requirements.
(1) Any wall or partition which is situated so as to create a viewing area in which any amusement device or viewing screen is located shall be constructed of not less than one hour fire-restriction material and shall contain no hole or other perforation.
(2) The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that there shall be an unobstructed view from a manager’s or cashier’s station of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. The view required in this section must be by direct line of sight from the manager or cashier’s station.
(3) No viewing room or booth shall be obstructed by any doors, curtains, partitions, walls, merchandise, display racks or other materials. No patron shall be permitted access to any area of the premises which has been designated as an area to which patrons are not permitted.
(4) No viewing room or booth shall be occupied by more than one person anytime. No owner, operator or employee shall knowingly permit any viewing room or booth to be occupied by more than one person anytime.
(5) No restroom shall contain any video reproduction devices or equipment.
(6) The premises shall be equipped with overhead lighting fixtures of sufficient intensity to illuminate every place to which patrons are permitted access at an illumination of not less than ten footcandles as measured at floor level.
(7) It shall be the duty of the owner, operator or employee to ensure that the illumination described above is maintained at all times any patron or customer is present in the premises.
(8) No owner, operator or employee shall allow openings of any kind to exist between viewing rooms or booths.
(9) No person shall make or attempt to make an opening of any kind to exist between viewing rooms or booths.
(10) The owner and/or employees shall, during each business day, cause the walls between the viewing booths to be regularly inspected to determine if any openings or holes exist.
(11) All floor coverings in viewing rooms or booths shall be nonporous, easily cleanable surfaces, with no rugs or carpeting.
(12) There must be at least one employee on duty and situated at the manager’s station at all times any patron is present inside the premises.
(B) All sexually oriented businesses in operation in the county on the effective date of this chapter shall comply with the configuration requirements of divisions (A)(1) and (A)(2) above within 120 days after the effective date of this chapter.
(Ord. passed 6-14-2005) Penalty, see § 112.99
All live performances in any sexually oriented businesses shall permit representatives of the county, including representatives of the Sheriffs Department, Fire Department or other county departments or agencies, to inspect the premises of a sexually oriented business for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the law.
(Ord. passed 6-14-2005) Penalty, see § 112.99
(A) All live performances in any sexually oriented business shall be on a designated performance area consisting of a stage or platform at least 18 inches above the immediate floor level and removed at least six feet from any area in which patrons are permitted.
(B) No person shall appear nude or in a state of nudity while engaged in any live performance on the premises of any sexually oriented business.
(C) No person shall appear semi-nude or in a semi-nude condition while engaged in any live performance on the premises of any sexually oriented business except on the state or platform described in division (A) above.
(D) No entertainer or employee shall be permitted to have any physical contact with any patron during any performance.
(E) No entertainer or employee shall be visible from any public place outside the premises during any performance.
(Ord. passed 6-14-2005) Penalty, see § 112.99
Each sexually oriented business shall maintain and retain for a period of two years beyond the last date of employment, the date of birth, last known address, date of determination and Social Security number of all persons employed by the sexually oriented business.
(Ord. passed 6-14-2005)