(a) Hours of Operation. It shall be unlawful for any owner, operator, manager, employee or independent contractor of an adult business to allow such adult business to remain open for business, or to license any employee to engage in a performance, solicit a performance, make a sale, solicit a sale, provide a service, or solicit a service, between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day, excepting here from an “adult hotel/motel.”
(b) On-Site Manager. All adult businesses shall have a responsible person who shall be at least 18 years of age and shall be on the premises to act as manager at all times during which the business is open. No performer may serve as the manager. The individual(s) designated as the on-site manager shall obtain an Adult Business Non-Performer License in compliance with Chapter 29 of Division 1 of Title 4 of the County Code, shall provide his/her name to the County Sheriff to receive all complaints and shall be given by the owner and/or operator the responsibility and duty to address and immediately resolve all violations taking place on the premises.
(c) Regulation of Adult Booth/Individual Viewing Area.
(1) No adult booth/individual viewing area shall be occupied by more than one individual at a time.
(2) Each adult booth/individual viewing area within the adult business shall be visible from a continuous and accessible main aisle in a public portion of the establishment, and shall not be obscured by any door, curtain, wall, two-way mirror or other device which would prohibit a person from seeing the entire interior of the adult booth/individual viewing area from the main aisle. Any adult business may have more than one manager station in order to ensure compliance with this regulation. At all times, the manager station(s) shall be maintained to ensure a clear line of sight into the interior of the adult/booth individual viewing area. Further, no one shall maintain any adult booth/individual viewing area in any configuration unless the entire interior wherein the picture or entertainment that is viewed is visible from the manager station(s). The entire body of any patron in any adult booth/individual viewing area must be visible from the main aisle and the manager station(s) without the assistance of mirrors or any other device.
(3) No doors are permitted on an adult booth/individual viewing area. No partially or fully enclosed adult booth/individual viewing areas or partially or fully concealed adult booth/individual viewing areas shall be maintained.
(4) No holes or other openings shall be permitted between adult booths/individual viewing areas. Any such hole or opening shall be repaired within 24 hours using “pop” rivets to secure metal plates over the hole or opening to prevent patrons from removing the metal plates.
(5) No beds, couches or chairs with a sitting area greater than 24 inches wide shall be permitted in an adult booth/individual viewing area.
(d) Interior of Premises/Screening. No exterior door or window on the premises of an adult business shall be propped or kept open at any time while the business is open and any exterior windows shall be covered with opaque coverings at all times.
(e) Displays of Adult-Oriented Materials. All signs or structures, advertisements, displays, or other promotional materials characterized or distinguished on matters describing or relating to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas,” as defined in this Code, shall be completely screened from public view as viewed from adjacent sidewalks or public rights-of-way.
(f) Signs. All adult businesses shall comply with the following sign requirements, in addition to those provided elsewhere in this Code. Should a conflict exist between the requirements of other provisions of the Code and this Subdivision, the more restrictive shall prevail. If an adult business does not serve alcohol, it shall post a notice prior to entry to the area of public assembly and within ten feet of every entrance used by customers for access to the establishment, stating that persons below the age of 18 years of age are prohibited from entering onto the premises or within the confines of the adult business. This notice shall be posted on a wall in a place of prominence. The dimensions of the notice shall be no less than six inches by six inches, with a minimum typeface of 25 points. If the adult business serves alcohol, it shall comply with all notice and posting requirements of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department.
(g) Exterior Lighting Requirements. All exterior areas, including parking lots, of the adult business shall be illuminated at a minimum of 1.50 foot candle, maintained and evenly distributed at ground level with appropriate devices to screen, deflect or diffuse the lighting in such manner as to prevent glare or reflected light from creating adverse impacts on adjoining and nearby public and private properties and to avoid light pollution. Inoperable and/or broken lights shall be replaced within 24 hours.
(h) Interior Lighting Requirements. All interior areas of the adult business, excepting therefrom adult hotels/motels, shall be illuminated according to the standard of the California Building Code, maintained and evenly distributed at floor level. Inoperable and/or broken lights shall be replaced within 24 hours, excepting here from an “adult hotel/motel.”
(i) Regulation of Public Restroom Facilities. All restrooms available for patron use shall be separated facilities for male and female patrons. The restrooms shall be free from adult-oriented material. Only one person shall be allowed in each restroom at any time, unless otherwise required by law, in which case the adult business shall employ a restroom attendant of the same sex as the restroom users who shall be present in the public portion of the restroom during operating hours. The attendant shall ensure that no person of the opposite sex is permitted into the restroom, and that not more than one person is permitted to enter a restroom stall, unless otherwise required by law, and that the restroom facilities are used only for their intended sanitary purposes. Access to restrooms for patron use shall not require passage through an area used as a dressing area by performers.
(j) Interior Areas. The surfaces of all interior areas of any adult business shall be kept free of any bodily fluids or excretion that would aid in the transmission of any communicable diseases.
(k) Trash. All interior trash cans shall be emptied into a single locked trash bin lined with a plastic bag or with individually bagged trash at least once a day. At least four times a day, the front and rear exteriors of any adult business, along with the parking lot, shall be inspected for trash and debris and any trash and debris found shall be immediately removed and placed into a single locked trash bin lined with a plastic bag.
(l) Adult Business Offering Adult Live Entertainment—Additional Operating Requirements. The following additional requirements shall apply to adult businesses providing adult live entertainment:
(1) No person shall perform adult live entertainment for patrons of an adult business except upon a permanently fixed stage at least 18 inches above the level of the floor, and surrounded with a three foot high barrier or by a fixed rail at least 30 inches in height. No patron shall be permitted on the stage while the stage is occupied by a performer(s) and/or adult cabaret dancer(s). This provision shall not apply to an individual viewing area where the performer is completely separated from the area in which the performer is viewed by an individual by a permanent, floor to ceiling, solid barrier.
(2) No performer or adult cabaret dancer shall be within six feet of a patron, measured horizontally, while the performer or adult cabaret dancer is performing adult live entertainment. While on stage, no performer or adult cabaret dancer shall have physical contact with any patron, and no patron shall have physical contact with any performer or adult cabaret dancer.
(3) As to off stage performances, no performer or adult cabaret dancer shall perform “adult live entertainment” off stage. As to an adult cabaret dancer performing off stage, a distance of at least six feet shall be maintained between the adult cabaret dancer and the patron(s) at all times. During off stage performances, no adult cabaret dancer shall have physical contact with any patron, and no patron shall have physical contact with any adult cabaret dancer.
(4) While on the premises, no performer or adult cabaret dancer shall have physical contact with a patron and no patron shall have physical contact with a performer or adult cabaret dancer, which physical contact involves the touching of the clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, cleft of the buttocks, perineum, anal region, or female breast with any part or area of any other person’s body either before or after any adult live entertainment or off-stage performances by such performer or adult cabaret dancer. Patrons shall be advised of the no touching requirements by signs and, if necessary, by employees of the establishment. This prohibition does not extend to incidental touching.
(5) Patrons shall be advised of the separation and no touching requirements by signs conspicuously displayed and placed on the barrier between patrons and performers and utilizing red or black printing of letters not less than one inch in size. If necessary, patrons shall also be advised of the separation and no touching requirements by employees of the establishment.
(6) All employees of the adult facility, except therefrom performers while performing on the fixed stage, while on or about the premises or tenant space, shall wear at a minimum an opaque covering which covers their specified anatomical areas.
(7) Patrons shall not throw money to performers, place monies in the performers’ costumes or otherwise place or throw monies on the stage. If patrons wish to pay or tip performers, payment or tips may be placed in containers. Patrons shall be advised of this requirement by signs conspicuously displayed and placed on the barrier between patrons and performers and utilizing red or black printing of letters not less than one inch in size. If necessary, patrons shall also be advised of the tipping and gratuity requirements by employees of the adult business.
(8) The adult business shall provide dressing rooms for performers, that are separated by gender and exclusively dedicated to the performers' use and which the performers shall use. Same gender performers may share a dressing room. Patrons shall not be permitted in dressing rooms.
(9) The adult business shall provide an entrance/exit to the establishment for performers that is separate from the entrance/exit used by patrons, which the performers shall use at all times.
(10) The adult business shall provide access for performers between the stage and the dressing rooms that is completely separated from the patrons. If such separate access is not physically feasible, the adult business shall provide a minimum three-foot wide walk aisle for performers between the dressing room area and the stage, with a railing, fence or other barrier separating the patrons and the performers capable of (and which actually results in) preventing any physical contact between patrons and performers and the patrons must also be three feet away from the walk aisle. Nothing in this section is intended to exempt the adult business from compliance with the provisions of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations pertaining to handicapped accessibility.
(11) All adult businesses featuring live entertainment shall employ security guards in order to maintain the public peace and safety, based upon the following standards:
(A) Provide at least one security guard at all times while the business is open.
(B) If the occupancy limit of the premises is greater than 21 persons, an additional security guard shall be on duty.
(C) Security guard(s) shall be charged with preventing violations of law and enforcing compliance by patrons with the requirements of these regulations. Security guard(s) shall be uniformed in such a manner so as to be readily identifiable as a security guard by the public and shall be duly licensed and bonded as a security guard as required by applicable provisions of state law. No security guard required pursuant to this Subdivision shall act as a door person, ticket seller, ticket taker, admittance person, or sole occupant of the manager’s station while acting as a security guard.
(D) Between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 30 minutes after the established closing time of the facility, security guard(s) shall regularly patrol the parking lot and adjacent outdoor areas of the facility to maintain order therein and prevent any illicit or nuisance activity.
(E) Security guard(s) shall be regularly posted at the doors used by the performers when said doors are in use.
(F) The adult business shall provide a security system that visually records and monitors all parking lot areas as well as all entrances and exits to or from the facility. The recordings shall have sufficient definition/fidelity to allow for identification of persons entering or exiting the premises. These recordings shall be retained on site for 30 days and shall be made available within 24 hours if requested by a member of the County Sheriff’s Department for a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
(m) Adult Motion Picture Theater Additional Operating Requirements. The following additional requirements shall apply to adult motion picture theaters:
(1) If the theater contains a hall or auditorium area, the area shall comply with each of the following provisions:
(A) Have individual, separate seats, not couches, benches, or the like, to accommodate the maximum number of persons who may occupy the hall or auditorium area;
(B) Have a continuous main aisle alongside the seating areas in order that each person seated in the hall or auditorium area shall be visible from the aisle at all times; and
(C) Have a sign posted in a conspicuous place at or near each entrance to the hall or auditorium area which lists the maximum number of persons who may occupy the hall or auditorium area, which number shall not exceed the number of seats within the hall or auditorium area.
(n) Employment of and Services Rendered to Persons under the Age of 18 Years is Prohibited; 21 if Liquor is Served.
(1) Employees/Independent Contractors. Employees and independent contractors of an adult business must be at least 18 years of age. It shall be unlawful for any owner, operator, manager, partner, director, officer, shareholder with a ten percent or greater interest, employees, or other person in charge of any adult business to employ, contract with, or otherwise retain any services in connection with the adult business with or from any person who is not at least 18 years of age. If liquor is served at the adult business, employees and independent contractors of the adult business must be at least 21 years of age. If liquor is served at the adult business, it shall be unlawful for any owner, operator, manager, partner, director, officer, shareholder with a ten percent or greater interest, employee, or other person in charge of any adult business to employ, contract with, or otherwise retain any services in connection with the adult business with or from any person who is not at least 21 years of age. And said persons shall exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the true age of persons seeking to contract with, be employed by, or otherwise service the adult business.
(2) Patrons. Patrons of an adult business must be at least 18 years of age. It shall be unlawful for any owner, operator, manager, partner, director, officer, shareholder with a ten percent or greater interest, employee, independent contractor, or other person in charge of any adult business to permit to enter or remain within the adult business any person who is not at least 18 years of age. If liquor is served at the adult business, patrons must be at least 21 years of age. If liquor is served at the adult business, it shall be unlawful for any owner, operator, manager, partner, director, officer, shareholder with a ten percent or greater interest, employee, independent contractor, or other person in charge of any adult business to permit to enter or remain within the adult business any person who is not at least 21 years of age. And said persons shall exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the true age of persons entering the adult business.
(o) X-Rated Movies. The selling, renting and/or displaying of x-rated movies, videotapes, digital video discs (DVDs), compact discs CDs) and laser discs shall be restricted to persons over 18 years of age or older. If an establishment that is not otherwise prohibited from providing access to the establishment to persons under 18 years of age sells, rents, or displays movies, videos, DVDs, CDs or laser discs that have been rated “X” or rated “NC-17” by the motion picture rating industry (Motion Picture Association of America or “MPAA”), or which have not been submitted to the MPAA for a rating, and which consist of images that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, said movies, videos, DVDs, CDs, and laser discs shall be located in a specific section of the establishment where these items are not visible to persons under the age of 18 and from which persons under the age of 18 shall be prohibited.
(p) Inspections. Each owner, operator, manager, employee or independent contractor of an adult business or other person in charge of an adult business shall permit representatives of the County Sheriff, Department of Public Health, Fire Department, Land Use Services Department, business license division, and other County departments, to inspect the adult business for the purpose of insuring compliance with the laws and operating standards applicable to adult businesses at any time it is occupied or open for business. Such inspections shall be conducted in a reasonable manner.
(Ord. 4239, passed - -2014)