(a) No person shall operate an adult motel within the city.
(b) Evidence that a sleeping room in a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment has been rented and vacated two or more times in less than ten hours creates a rebuttable presumption that the establishment is an adult motel as that term is defined in § 869.02 of this chapter.
(c) Evidence that a person in control of a sleeping room in a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment has rented or sub-rented a sleeping room to a person and, within ten hours from the time the room was rented, has rented or sub-rented the same sleeping room again, creates a rebuttable presumption that the establishment is an adult motel as that term is defined in § 869.02 of this chapter.
(d) For purposes of division (b) hereof, the terms
RENT or SUB-RENT means the act of permitting a room to be occupied for any form of consideration.
(e) Any person who operates a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment that is found to be an adult motel, as defined in § 869.02 of this chapter, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 2002-175, passed 10-7-2002)