No licensee, owner, manager, server, entertainer or patron of an SOE business, while on or about the premises of the business, shall fail to comply with the following standards of conduct:
(a) Age Restriction. Only persons twenty-one years of age or older shall be permitted on the premises of an SOE business. The manager or manager's representative shall verify a person's age by one of the following methods:
(1) A motor vehicle operator's license issued by any state, bearing the applicant's photograph and date of birth;
(2) A state-issued identification card bearing the applicant's photograph and date of birth;
(3) An official and valid passport issued by the United States of America;
(4) An immigration card issued by the United States of America.
Failure to verify the age of a patron shall be considered a violation of this chapter.
(b) Exterior Observation. The premises of all of the SOE businesses shall be constructed to include a partition or other physical barrier on all customer entrances that will ensure that observation of the interior of the business is not possible from the exterior. In addition, all windows will be covered to prevent viewing of the interior of the building from the outside and all doorways not constructed with a partition or other physical barrier shall be covered so as to prevent observation of the interior of the premises from the exterior of the building. No SOE business shall be conducted in a manner that permits the observation of live entertainers, servers or employees from the exterior of the building.
(c) Exterior Signs. The SOE business shall only be permitted to install a single sign which conforms to the Village sign ordinance and shall not display or depict specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(d) Nudity Prohibited. No employee, server, entertainer or patron in an SOE business shall appear in any fashion that exposes to view any specified anatomical area.
(e) Certain Acts Prohibited.
(1) No employee, server or entertainer shall perform any specified sexual activities, wear or use any device or covering exposed to view which simulates any specified anatomical area, use artificial devices of inanimate objects to perform or depict any specified sexual activities, or participate in any act of prostitution.
(2) No employee, server, entertainer or patron of an SOE business shall knowingly touch, fondle or caress any specified anatomical area of another person, or knowingly permit another person to touch, fondle or caress any specified anatomical area of such employee, server, entertainer or patron, whether such specified anatomical areas are clothed, unclothed, covered or exposed.
(3) No employee, server or entertainer of an SOE business shall be visible from the exterior of the SOE business while such person is unclothed or in such attire, costume or clothing as to expose to view any specified anatomical area.
(4) No SOE entertainer shall solicit, demand or receive any payment or gratuity from any patron or customer for any act prohibited by this chapter and no SOE entertainer shall receive any payment or gratuity from any customer for any entertainment except as follows:
A. While such entertainer is on the stage, a patron may place such payment or gratuity into a box affixed to the stage, or
B. While such entertainer is not on the stage and is clothed so as to not expose to view any specified anatomical area, a patron may either place such payment or gratuity into the entertainer's hand, or under a leg garter worn by such entertainer at least four inches below the bottom of the pubic region.
(5) No owner, operator, manager or other person in charge of the premises of an SOE business shall knowingly:
A. Permit alcoholic liquor to be brought upon or consumed on the premises;
B. Allow or permit the sale, distribution, delivery or consumption of any controlled substance or illegal drug or narcotic on the premises;
C. Allow or permit any person under the age of twenty-one years of age to be in or upon the premises;
D. Allow or permit any act of prostitution or patronizing prostitution on the premises; or
E. Allow or permit a violation of this chapter or State law.
(f) Hours of Operation. No sexually oriented entertainment business may be open or in use between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Only employees of the SOE business shall be permitted in or upon the premises of the business between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.
(g) Closed Booths or Rooms Prohibited. Every SOE business shall be physically arranged in such a manner that the entire interior portion of the booths, cubicles, rooms or stall, wherein sexually oriented entertainment is provided, shall be visible from the common area of the premises. Visibility shall not be blocked or obscured by doors, curtains, partitions, drapes or any other obstruction whatsoever.
(h) Alcoholic Liquor Prohibited. No employee, patron, manager, entertainer, owner or other person shall consume or possess any alcoholic liquor in an SOE business or premises. An SOE business shall not share a common interior entrance or access area with a business licensed by the Village to sell alcoholic liquor. The owner and manager of the SOE business shall be responsible for prohibiting the consumption or possession of alcoholic liquor by patrons on the premises, including adjacent private parking facilities which serve the business.
(i) Interior Lighting Required. The interior premises of an SOE business shall be equipped with overhead lighting of sufficient intensity to illuminate every place to which customers are permitted access at an illumination of not less than one foot candle as measured at floor level, and such illumination must be maintained at all times that any customer or patron is present in the interior premises.
(Ord. 792. Passed 8-9-93.)