(A) It shall be unlawful for any employee or performer (including amateur performers) in any business or commercial establishment to have any sexual contact with any other employee, performer, or patron for gratuity, pay, or other remuneration, direct or indirect, or in conjunction with or as part of any performance or entertainment in any business or commercial establishment.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any patron to have sexual contact with any employee or performer in any business or commercial establishment.
(C) For the purposes of this section, SEXUAL CONTACT shall mean the intentional touching between a patron, a performer, or employee involving contact by or with a patron’s, performer’s or employee’s sexual organ, buttock(s), or breast(s), whether covered or not, or kissing, when the contact can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of sexual arousal or sexual gratification of either party or any observer.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person purposely or knowingly to solicit, induce, or attempt to induce another person to engage in an act or acts prohibited hereunder.
(E) It shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee, proprietor, or manager of any business or commercial establishment to knowingly allow any person on the premises of the business or commercial establishment to engage in an act or acts prohibited hereunder.
(F) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a theater, concert hall, art center, museum, or similar establishment which is primarily devoted to the arts or theatrical performances and in which any of the circumstances contained in this section were permitted or allowed as part of the art exhibits or performances.
(1972 Code, § 6-342) (Ord. 981, passed 8-18-2003) Penalty, see § 130.99