§ 117.23 ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS FOR ADULT MOTELS.
   (A)   Evidence that a sleeping room in a hotel, motel, or a similar commercial establishment has been rented and vacated two or more times in a period of time that is less than ten hours creates a rebuttable presumption that the establishment is an adult motel as that term is defined in this ordinance.
   (B)   No person in control of a sleeping room in a hotel, motel, or similar commercial establishment that does not have a sexually oriented license, shall rent or sub-rent a sleeping room to a person and, within ten hours from the time the room is rented, rent or sub-rent the same sleeping room again.
   (C)   For purposes of subsection (B) of this section, the terms RENT or SUB-RENT means the act of permitting a room to be occupied for any form of consideration.
   (D)   Notwithstanding the provision of any other building or applicable code, the sleeping room shall not have less than 150 square feet of floor space.
   (E)   An adult motel shall not provide closed circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, video cassette slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by their emphasis upon the exhibition or description of “specified sexual activities” or “specific anatomical areas” within any room or area, except within a sleeping room.
   (F)   The licensee of an adult motel shall insure that each sleeping room and accessory room are clean and sanitary. Such duty shall be fulfilled if the licensee:
      (1)   maintains a regular cleaning schedule of at least one cleaning per rental of the room, documented by appropriate logs;
      (2)   all garbage, trash, body fluids, and excrement discovered during each inspection and cleaning are immediately removed and all areas where same are present are cleaned with a disinfectant;
      (3)   all solid waste and debris generated within a room are removed from the room each time that a room is cleaned and placed in closed trash receptacles and all waste, debris and garbage generated by the adult motel is removed from the premises of the adult motel at least once each week by a garbage or trash service or other lawful means;
      (4)   not less often than once each week the entire room shall be cleaned with a disinfectant, including at least the floors, all walls within 48-inches of the floor, and all surface areas of any furniture, fixtures or appliances; and
      (5)   all linen, including but not limited to towels, sheets and other similar non-disposal personal hygiene items shall be changed and removed with each rental of a sleeping room and shall be laundered with soap or other disinfectant prior to re-use.
   (G)   Neither the business licensee nor any employee of an adult motel shall be nude or semi-nude when upon the premises of the sexually oriented business except within the sleeping room or other room occupied as the private personal room of same when no patron is present or during the bona fide use by same of a single sex restroom for its intended purpose. No patron shall be nude or semi-nude when a business licensee or any employee of the adult motel is present. No live entertainment shall be provided by a licensee within any room rented to or occupied by a patron nor within any room or other area upon the premises of an adult motel.
(Prior Code, Art. 11, § 11.15.23)