795.22 ADVERTISING AND LIGHTING REGULATIONS.
   (a)   No person shall operate or cause to be operated an adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club, regardless of whether or not a permit has been issued for said business or club under this chapter, and advertise the presentation of any activity prohibited by any applicable state statute or local ordinance.
   (b)   No person shall operate or cause to be operated an adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club regardless of whether or not a permit has been issued for said business or club under this chapter, and display or otherwise exhibit the materials and/or performances at such adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club in any advertising which is visible outside the premises. This prohibition shall not extend to advertising of the existence or location of such adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club.
   (c)   The permittee shall not allow any portion of the interior premises to be visible from outside the premises.
   (d)   All off-street parking areas and premise entries of the adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club 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. This required lighting level is established in order to provide sufficient illumination of the parking areas and walkways serving the adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club 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 premise.
   (e)   Nothing contained in this section shall relieve the operator(s) of an adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club from complying with the requirements of the City of Reynoldsburg, commonly known as the Adult Entertainment and/or Sexually Oriented Business or Club Ordinance, as it may be amended from time to time, or any subsequently enacted city ordinances or regulations.
   (f)   Whoever violates this provision shall be subject to the criminal penalties outlined in Section 795.05.
(Ord. 116-99. Passed 9-20-99)