(A) Applicants. Any person intending to engage in the occupation or profession of a dancer, performer, entertainer or any person employed or working as contract labor who provides or engages in adult entertainment at an adult establishment shall, prior to providing or engaging in same, make application for a city adult entertainer license with the City Clerk in accordance with this section. Such application shall be in writing, under oath, and shall be in a form prescribed by the City Clerk and shall include: the legal name of the applicant; any and all names used by the applicant in the course of performance of duties as a dancer, performer or entertainer; the applicant’s residence address; the applicant’s date of birth; the applicant’s Social Security number; a photograph of the applicant taken within 30 days prior to the application; and the applicant’s fingerprints. The applicant shall submit with this application an annual license fee of $100 which shall not be prorated. The City Clerk shall issue or deny the applicant a license within 30 days after receiving a full and complete application. All licenses issued shall expire on June 30 of each year and shall be renewed by the City Clerk within 30 days after receiving a full and complete application for renewal. If the City Clerk fails to issue or deny a license or the renewal of a license within the 30-day period, the license shall be deemed to have been issued for the current licensing period. Under no circumstances may an applicant be issued a license, and any license previously issued or renewed shall be automatically terminated, if the City Clerk determines that the applicant has been convicted in the past five years of any offense involving prostitution under KRS Ch. 529, unlawful transactions with a minor under KRS Ch. 530, obscene matter under KRS Ch. 531, controlled substances under KRS 218A, criminal solicitation under KRS 506.030 if such solicitation related to a prostitution offense under KRS Ch. 529, sexual misconduct under KRS 510.140, or any similar law of the United States of America or state or territory of the United States of America.
(B) Renewal. Application for renewal of a city adult entertainer license shall be made on or before June 1; and a penalty for late application shall be assessed in the amount of $25.
(C) License required. Thirty days after the effective date of this chapter, no dancer, performer or person employed or working as contract labor who provides or engages in adult entertainment at an adult establishment shall dance, perform or otherwise be occupied in the providing of adult entertainment without having obtained the license required by this chapter.
(Ord. 993-299, passed 5-19-1993) Penalty, see § 117.99