(A) Maximum occupancy load, fire exits, aisles and fire equipment shall be regulated, designed and provided in accordance with the Fire Department and building regulations and standards adopted by the city.
(B) No adult-oriented business shall be operated in any manner that permits the observation of any material or activities depicting, describing or relating to "specified anatomical areas" from any public way or from any location outside the building or area of such establishment. This provision shall apply to any display, decoration, sign, show window or other opening. No exterior door or window on the premises shall be propped or kept open at any time while the business is open, and any exterior windows shall be covered with opaque covering at all times.
(C) All off-street parking areas and premise entries of the adult-oriented business shall be illuminated from dusk to closing hours of operation with a lighting system which provides an average maintained horizontal illumination of one foot candle of light on the parking surface and/or walkways. The required lighting level is established in order to provide sufficient illumination of the parking areas and walkways serving the adult-oriented business for the personal safety of patrons and employees and to reduce the incidence of vandalism and criminal conduct. The lighting shall be shown on the required sketch or diagram of the premises.
(D) The premises within which the adult-oriented business is located shall provide sufficient sound-absorbing insulation so that noise generated inside said premises shall not be audible anywhere on any adjacent property or public right-of-way or within any other building or other separate unit within the same building.
(E) An adult-oriented business shall be open for business only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight on any particular day.
(F) The building entrance to an adult-oriented business shall be clearly and legibly posted with a notice indicating that persons under 18 years of age are precluded from entering the premises. Said notice shall be constructed and posted to the satisfaction of the Community Development Director or designee.
(G) All indoor areas of the adult-oriented business within which patrons are permitted, except rest rooms, shall be open to view by the management at all times.
(H) Any adult-oriented business which is also an "adult arcade", shall comply with the following provisions:
(1) The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that there is an unobstructed view from a manager's station of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding rest rooms. Rest rooms may not contain video reproduction equipment nor any other method of concealed viewing of any kind. If the premises has two or more manager's stations designated, then the interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that there is an unobstructed view of each area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose from at least one of the manager's stations. The view required in this subsection must be direct line of sight from the manager's station.
(2) The view area specified in subsection (1) of the section shall remain unobstructed by any doors, walls, merchandise, display racks, or other materials at all times. No patron is permitted access to any area of the premises which has been designated as an area in which patrons will not be permitted.
(3) No viewing room may be occupied by more than one person at any one time.
(4) The walls or partitions between viewing rooms or booths shall be maintained in good repair at all times, with no holes between any two such rooms such as would allow viewing from one booth into another or such as to allow physical contact of any kind between the occupants of any two booths or rooms.
(5) Customers, patrons or visitors shall not be allowed to stand idly by in the vicinity of any such video booths, or remain in any common area of such business who are not actively engaged in shopping for or reviewing the products available on display for purchaser viewing. Signs prohibiting loitering shall be posted in prominent places in and near the video booths.
(6) The floors, seats, walls and other interior portions of all video booths shall be maintained clean and free from waste and bodily secretions. Presence of human excrement, urine, semen, or saliva in any such booths shall be evidence of improper maintenance and inadequate sanitary controls; repeated instances of such conditions may justify suspension or revocation of the owner and operator's license to conduct the adult-oriented business.
(I) All areas of the adult-oriented business shall be illuminated at a minimum of the following foot candies, minimally maintained and evenly distributed at ground level:
Area | Foot-Candles |
Bookstores and other retail establishments | 20 |
Theaters and cabarets | 5 (except during performances, at which times lighting shall be at least 1.25 foot-candles) |
Arcades | 10 |
Motels/Hotels | 20 (in public areas) |
Modeling studios | 20 |
(J) The adult-oriented business shall provide and maintain separate rest room facilities for male patrons and employees, and female patrons and employees. Male patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the rest room(s) for females, and female patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the rest room(s) for males, except to carry out duties of repair, maintenance and cleaning of the rest room facilities. The rest rooms shall be free from any Adult Material. Rest rooms shall not contain television monitors or other motion picture or video projection, recording or reproduction equipment or any other method of concealed viewing. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to adult-oriented businesses which deal exclusively with sale or rental of adult material which is not used or consumed on the premises, such as an adult bookstore or adult video store, and which does not provide rest room facilities to its patrons or the general public.
(K) The following additional requirements shall pertain to adult-oriented businesses providing live entertainment depicting specified anatomical areas or involving specified sexual activities, except for businesses regulated by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission:
(1) No person shall perform live entertainment for patrons of an adult-oriented business except upon a stage at least 18 inches above the level of the floor and which is separated by a distance of at least ten feet from the nearest area occupied by patrons, and no patron shall be permitted within ten feet of the stage while the stage is occupied by an entertainer.
(2) The adult-oriented business shall provide separate dressing room facilities for entertainers which are exclusively dedicated to the entertainers' use.
(3) The adult-oriented business shall provide an entrance/exit for entertainers which is separate from the entrance/exit used by patrons.
(4) The adult-oriented business shall provide access for entertainers between the stage and the dressing rooms which is completely separated from the patrons. If such separate access is not physically feasible, the adult-oriented business shall provide a minimum three foot wide walk aisle for entertainers between the dressing room area and the stage, with a railing, fence or other barrier separating the patrons and the entertainers capable of (and which actually results in) preventing any physical contact between patrons and entertainers.
(5) No entertainer, either before, during or after performances, shall have physical contact with any patron and no patron shall have physical contact with any entertainer either before, during or after performances by such entertainer. This subsection shall apply only to physical contact on the premises of the adult-oriented business.
(6) Fixed rail(s) at least 30 inches in height shall be maintained establishing the separations between entertainers and patrons required by this subsection.
(7) No patron shall directly pay or give any gratuity to any entertainer and no entertainer shall solicit any pay or gratuity from any patron.
(8) No owner or other person with managerial control over an adult-oriented business (as that term is defined herein) shall permit any person on the premises of the adult-oriented business to engage in a live showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a fully opaque coverage over any part of the nipple or areola and/or covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. This provision may not be complied with by applying an opaque covering simulating the appearance of the specified anatomical part required to be covered.
(L) Adult-oriented businesses shall employ security guards in order to maintain the public peace and safety, based upon the following standards:
(1) Adult-oriented businesses featuring live entertainment shall provide at least one security guard at all times while the business is open. If the occupancy limit of the premises is greater than 35 persons, an additional security guard shall be on duty.
(2) Security guards for other adult-oriented businesses may be required if it is determined by the Chief of Police that their presence is necessary in order to prevent any of the conduct listed in § 10-7.12 from occurring on the premises.
(3) Security guard(s) shall be charged with preventing violations of law and enforcing compliance by patrons of the requirements of these regulations. Security guards shall be uniformed in such a manner so as to be readily identifiable as a security guard as required by applicable provisions of state law. No security guard required pursuant to this subdivision shall act as a door person, ticket seller, ticket taker, admittance person, or sole occupant of the manager's station while acting as a security guard.
The foregoing applicable requirements of this section shall be deemed conditions of adult-oriented business use permit approvals, and failure to comply with each requirement shall be grounds for revocation of the use permit issued pursuant to these regulations.
(Ord. 697 C.S., passed 3-17-99)