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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, selfemployed or employed by another, to act as an escort without first obtaining and maintaining in effect an escort license as provided by this article.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person, association, partnership, firm or corporation to furnish or offer to furnish escorts or introduction service, or to conduct business as an escort bureau, or to manage an escort bureau, without first obtaining and maintaining in effect an escort bureau license as provided by this article.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person or other entity doing business as an escort bureau to employ as an escort any person who does not have a current and unrevoked escort license as provided by this article.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person or entity licensed as provided by this article to act as an escort, or furnish or offer to furnish escorts or introduction service, or manage or conduct business as an escort bureau under any name not specified in such license.
(e) It shall be unlawful for any person, association, partnership, firm or corporation to operate an escort bureau on the same premises whereon is located a cocktail lounge, bar or tavern, photography studio, telephone answering service, theater, bookstore, martial arts studio, physical culture, studio, public bath, motel, hotel, or massage parlor, or for any person to solicit business as an escort while in or on such business premises.
(Ord. No. 4782, § 1, 4-3-78)
(a) Any person, association, firm, partnership or corporation desiring to obtain an escort bureau license, and any person desiring to obtain an escort license, shall apply to the city director of finance, who shall refer each application to the chief of police for appropriate investigation. A person desiring licenses authorizing activity as both an escort and escort bureau shall submit separate applications.
(b) Each application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee of three hundred dollars ($300.00) and the bond required by this article. The application fee required by this section and the license required by this article shall be in addition to any business license and fee which may be required by chapter 19 of the Tucson Code. The granting of a license under this article shall not be deemed evidence or proof that the licensee has complied with requirements and provisions of chapter 19 of the Tucson Code.
(c) The chief of police shall investigate an application and the background of the applicant. Based on such investigation, the chief of police shall recommend to the director of finance approval or denial of a license within sixty (60) days of receiving a completed application. The sixty (60) days may be extended for a reasonable time if required by the chief of police to obtain information from other law enforcement agencies.
(Ord. No. 4782, § 1, 4-3-78; Ord. No. 8130, § 1, 10-4-93)
(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)
No escort license or escort bureau license shall be issued or renewed if the applicant:
(1) Has been convicted within the previous five (5) years of a felony or of any offense involving moral turpitude, or of any offense involving prostitution or any of the related offenses enumerated in A.R.S. section 13-1401 et seq.; rape, indecent exposure, child molesting, lewd and lascivious acts as enumerated in this Code or defined in the Arizona Revised Statutes, or of any offense involving the unlawful carrying, possession, or use of a dangerous weapon, or of any offense involving the unlawful possession, sale, or use of dangerous or narcotic drugs;
(2) Is not eighteen (18) years of age or older;
(3) Knowingly made any false statement in his application;
(4) While not licensed under the provisions of this article, committed, aided or abetted the commission of any act for which a license is required by this article;
(5) While licensed under this article, has had such license revoked within the previous five (5) years.
(Ord. No. 4782, § 1, 4-3-78)
(a) A licensee shall conduct business only at the address shown on the license. Each additional place of business shall require a separate license.
(b) All licenses issued under this article shall be nontransferable as to licensee; however, the director of finance, upon receipt of a transfer fee of ten dollars ($10.00), shall authorize the transfer of a license from one location to another provided the licensee remains the same.
(c) No license shall in any manner advertise its services as licensed or bonded by the city.
(Ord. No. 4782, § 1, 4:3-78)
(a) Every person licensed as an escort under this article shall maintain a legible written record of every transaction whereby the licensee acted as an escort. The record shall show the date and hours of each transaction and the name, address and telephone number of the person or persons for whom the licensee acted as escort.
(b) Every escort bureau licensee shall maintain:
(1) A current list of all escorts employed by the licensee, showing the name and current address of each.
(2) A legible written record of every transaction whereby any introduction service or escort is furnished to, or arranged for on behalf of, any person, patron or customer. The records shall show the date and hour of each transaction, the name, address and telephone number of the person requesting or arranging for introduction service or escort, and the name of every escort furnished, or other person about whom information is furnished, by the licensee.
(c) The records required by subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be kept available and open for inspection by the police department at any time or by the director of finance or his authorized representative at any time.
(d) Every escort bureau licensee shall report in writing to the police department the name of any escort employed by the licensee whose employment by the licensee has terminated, within twenty-four (24) hours after such termination.
(Ord. No. 4782, § 1, 4-3-78)
The director of finance shall have the authority to revoke a license issued under this article when:
(1) The licensee is operating in violation of this article or of any other ordinance or regulation relating to or regulating the licensee's business, and has failed or refused to cease and desist from such violation within five (5) days after notice to do so from the director of finance.
(2) The licensee or its managing agent has been convicted, since the license was issued, of any of the offenses described in section 7-121(1) of this article.
(3) The licensee or its managing agent has knowingly made false or misleading statements of material fact in the application for the license required by this article, or has entered or given false information in any record or report required by this article to be kept or made by a licensee.
(Ord. No. 4782, § 1, 4-3-78)
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