(a) An applicant for an escort license or escort bureau license shall submit an application, verified under oath, containing the following information and material:
(1) The applicant's full legal and current residence address;
(2) The applicant's two (2) residence addresses immediately prior to the applicant's present address, and the dates of residence at each;
(3) Any other name by which the applicant has been known during the previous five (5) years;
(4) The address at which the applicant desires to do business, and the name under which the business will be conducted;
(5) Written proof that the applicant is at least twenty-one (21) years of age;
(6) The applicant's height, weight and color of hair and eyes;
(7) Two (2) portrait photographs, at least two (2) inches by two (2) inches in size, taken within the previous six (6) months;
(8) The business, occupation or employment history of the applicant during the previous five (5) years;
(9) All felony and misdemeanor convictions of the applicant, excluding those for traffic offenses;
(10) The applicant's complete fingerprints, recorded by the police department;
(11) The name and current residence address of each person employed or intended to be employed as an escort;
(12) If an application is for an escort bureau license for other than an individual, the full name and current residence address of each of its partners, members, directors, officers and managers;
(13) Such other information and identification as the police department may require in order to discover the truth of the matters above required to be set forth in the application.
(b) If an application for an escort bureau license is for a firm, partnership, association or corporation, the applicant shall be the individual who is to be in actual management of the escort bureau for which a license is requested, and the information and material required about the applicant by subsection (a) of this section shall also be required about the individual in active management of the firm, partnership, association or corporation in whose name the license is to be issued.
(c) An application for a license shall be accompanied by:
(1) The application fee required by section 7-119 of this article; and
(2) A surety bond in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00). The bond shall be executed and acknowledged by the licensee as principal and by a corporation licensed to transact fidelity and surety business in the state as surety. The bond shall be continuous in form and run concurrently with the license period, and shall be in favor of the city for the benefit of any person injured by any act of the principal or the principal's agent or employee, and shall be subject to claim by any person injured thereby.
(Ord. No. 4782, § 1, 4-3-78)