4.55.070   Adult entertainment facilities and operation requirements.
   All adult entertainment establishments shall comply with the following facilities and operations requirements:
   (a)   Such establishments shall comply with all code requirements.
   (b)   A minimum of one tub or shower, and one toilet and washbasin shall be provided in every such establishment, except that this provision shall not apply to adult bookstores, adult theaters, adult arcades, or adult video stores, unless the establishments offer other adult entertainment in addition to the goods and services described in the definitions of those terms.
   (c)   Cabinets or other covered spaces shall be provided for the storage of clean linen, where necessary. Approved receptacles shall be provided for the storage of all soiled linen and paper towels, if any.
   (d)   Minimum ventilation shall be provided in accordance with the building code of the city. To allow for adequate ventilation in cubicles, rooms and areas provided for patrons' use, which are not serviced directly by required window or mechanical systems of ventilation, partitions shall be constructed so that the height of partitions does not exceed seventy-five percent of the floor-to-ceiling height of the area in which they are located, provided that cubicles or rooms are allowed in light of the provisions of Section 4.55.075.
   (e)   All plumbing and electrical installations shall be installed under permit and inspection of the building inspection department, and such installations shall be installed in accordance with the Uniform Building Code and the Uniform Plumbing Code.
   (f)   The walls in all rooms where water or steam baths are given shall have a washable, mold-resistant surface.
   (g)   All lavatories or washbasins shall be provided with hot and cold running water, soap and single-service towels in wall-mounted dispensers.
   (h)   Security deposit facilities capable of being locked by the patron or a security bag that may be carried by the patron shall be available for the protection of valuables of the patrons, except that this provision shall not apply to adult bookstores, adult theaters, adult arcades, or adult video stores.
   (i)   Every portion of the establishment, including appliances, apparatus and personnel, shall be kept clean and operated in a sanitary condition.
   (j)   All such establishments shall be provided with clean and sanitary towels, sheets and linens in sufficient quantity. Towels, sheets and linens shall not be used by more than one person. Reuse of such linen is prohibited unless the same has first been laundered. Heavy white paper may be substituted for sheets provided that such paper is used once for each person and then discarded into a sanitary receptacle. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to adult bookstores, adult theaters, adult arcades, or adult video stores.
   (k)   All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms and all other physical facilities for the establishment must be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms, or steam or vapor cabinets, shower compartments and toilet rooms, if any, shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected each day the business is in operation. Bathtubs, if any, shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected after each use.
   (l)   Disinfecting agents and sterilizing equipment shall be provided for any instruments used in performing any services involving contact with any patron, and said instruments shall be disinfected and sterilized after each use.
   (m)   Pads used on any tables shall be covered with durable, washable plastic or other acceptable waterproof material.
   (n)   Each service offered, the price thereof, and the minimum length of time such service shall be performed shall be posted in a conspicuous public location in each establishment, except that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to adult bookstores, adult theaters, adult arcades, or adult video stores. All letters and numbers shall be capitals, and not less than one-half inch in height.
   (o)   Adult entertainment establishments shall close and remain closed from eleven p.m. to nine a.m.
   (p)   No adult entertainment establishment shall be allowed:
   (1)   Within two hundred fifty feet of the exterior property limits of any public or private elementary school, junior high school or high school;
   (2)   Within two hundred fifty feet of the exterior limits of any district where residential use is the principal permitted use, including R and RM districts, O-S districts, and any P-C or P-F districts where the principal use permitted or maintained is residential; or
   (3)   Within twelve hundred feet of the exterior property limits of any other premises lawfully occupied by an adult entertainment establishment, a cardroom, massage establishment or hot tub/sauna establishment. For the purpose of determining compliance with standard (3), as to, between, and with respect to establishments lawfully in operation on September 27, 1976, priority between such existing establishments shall be assigned in accordance with the dates upon which said establishments commenced such lawful operation, priority being given to the establishment having the earliest of such dates. In the event any dispute arises regarding said date, the applicant shall have the obligation to establish the date on which he commenced lawful operation. All distances referred to in this section shall be measured between the closest points on the exterior property lines or area boundaries of the parcels or areas involved, except that when an enterprise subject to the provisions of this section occupies one unit of a multi-unit structure located on a single parcel, distances shall be measured from the exterior boundaries of the units so occupied.
(Ord. 3947 § 1, 1990: Ord. 3113 § 9, 1979: Ord. 2946 § 4 (part), 1976)