Sec. 7-209. Licensing required; expiration; annual renewal; unlawful acts.
   (a)   It shall be unlawful for any person, self-employed or employed by another, association, partnership, firm or corporation, to open or operate an adult entertainment enterprise or to conduct business as or to manage an adult entertainment enterprise without first obtaining and maintaining in effect, an adult entertainment enterprise license, as provided by this article.
   (b)   It shall be unlawful for any person, self-employed or employed by another, association, partnership, firm or corporation to employ an adult entertainment employee that is not currently licensed, as provided by this article.
   (c)   It shall be unlawful for any adult entertainment employee to be an employee of an adult entertainment enterprise without first obtaining, and maintaining in effect, an adult entertainment employee license as provided by this article.
   (d)   Adult entertainment employee licenses shall be effective for one (1) year, expiring at midnight one (1) year from the date of the initial application, unless a reapplication is filed with the city's director of finance within thirty (30) days before the expiration date; except as follows:
   (1)   Adult entertainment employee licenses in effect at the time of the adoption of this ordinance shall expire at midnight one (1) year after the passage of this ordinance [April 11, 1994], if a reapplication is not filed with the department upon or before that date.
   (2)   Adult entertainment employees who do not appear in a state of undress as described in section 7-207(h), do not have to renew their licenses, nor do their licenses expire.
(Ord. No. 4783, § 1, 4-3-78; Ord. No. 5427, § 1, 9-8-81; Ord. No. 7299, § 4, 10-23-89; Ord. No. 7414, § 1, 5-21-90; Ord. No. 8246, § 2, 4-11-94)