A person who operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business, other than an adult motel, which exhibits on the premises in a viewing room of less than 150 square feet of floor space, a video cassette or other video reproduction which depicts sexually explicit activities or specified anatomical areas shall comply with the following requirements.
(A) Upon application for a sexually oriented business license, the application shall be accompanied by a professionally sealed floor plan of the premises specifying the location of one or more manager’s stations, booths, stalls or individual rooms, the location of all overhead lighting and designating any portion of the premises in which patrons will not be permitted. The diagram shall also designate the place at which the permit will be conspicuously posted, if granted. Township administration may waive the foregoing diagram for renewal applications if the applicant adopts a diagram that was previously submitted and certifies that the configuration of the premises has not been altered since it was prepared.
(B) For the prevention of the spread of sexually transmitted disease, no partitions between subdivisions of a room, portion or part of a building, structure or premises may have an aperture which is designed or otherwise constructed to encourage sexual activity between persons on either side of the partition.
(C) (1) No booths, stalls or partitioned portions of a room, or individual rooms, used for the viewing of motion pictures or other forms of entertainment, shall be doors, curtains or portal partitions, but all such booths, stalls, partitioned portions of a room or individual rooms so used shall have at least one side open to an adjacent public room so that the area inside is visible to all persons in the adjacent public room.
(2) All such described areas shall be lighted in a manner that the persons in the areas used for viewing motion pictures or other forms of entertainment are visible from the adjacent public rooms, but such lighting shall not be of such intensity as to prevent the viewing of the motion pictures or other offered entertainment.
(D) The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that there is an unobstructed view from a manager’s station of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. Restrooms may not contain video reproduction equipment. The view required in this division (D) must be by direct line of sight from the manager’s station.
(E) It is the duty of the owners and operator of the premises to ensure that at least one employee is on duty and situated in each manager’s station at all times that any patron is present inside the premises.
(F) It shall be the duty of the owners and operator, and it shall also be the duty of any agents and employees present on the premises to ensure that the view area specified in division (D) above remains unobstructed by any doors, walls, merchandise, display racks or other materials at all times that any patron is present in the premises and to ensure that no patron in permitted access to any area of the premises which has been designated as an area in which patrons will not be permitted in the application files pursuant to division (A) above.
(G) It shall be the duty of the owners and operator and it shall also be the duty of any agents and employees present in the premises to ensure that overhead lighting described above is maintained at all times that any patron is present in the premises.
(Prior Code, § 49.117) (Ord. 71601, eff. 8-15-2001)