It is the purpose and intent of this Chapter to provide for the licensing of adult business performers in order to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the County. The goals of the performer licensing provisions are (a) to protect minors by requiring that all performers be over the age of 18 years; (b) to assure the correct identification of persons performing in adult businesses; (c) to enable the County Sheriff to deploy law enforcement resources effectively; and (d) to detect and discourage the involvement of crime in adult businesses by precluding the licensing of performers with certain sex-related convictions within a prior time period. It is neither the intent nor the effect of these regulations to invade the privacy of performers or to impose limitations or restrictions on the content of any communicative material. Similarly, it is neither the intent nor the effect of these regulations to restrict or deny access by adults to communicative materials or to deny access by the distributors or exhibitors of adult businesses to their intended lawful market. Nothing in these regulations is intended to authorize, legalize, or permit the establishment, operation, or maintenance of any business, building, or use which violates any County ordinance or any statute of the State of California regarding public nuisances, unlawful or indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewdness, obscene or harmful matter, or the exhibition or public display thereof.
(Ord. 4239, passed - -2014; Am. Ord. 4379, passed - -2020)