(a) Each individual to be employed or to work as an independent contractor in an adult entertainment facility shall be required to obtain an employee or independent contractor's license. Each applicant for a license shall pay a license fee as determined by Council from time to time. The initial fee shall be fifty dollars ($50.00). Said fee is to cover part of the reasonable administrative costs of the licensing application process. Licenses are non-transferable.
(b) Before any individual may be issued an employee or independent contractor's license, he or she shall submit on a form to be provided by the City the following information:
(1) The individual's name, including any stage names or aliases, and a personal or business address where mail may be delivered.
(2) Written proof of date of birth showing that the individual is at least 18 years of age.
(3) A statement detailing whether he or she has ever had a similar license, permit, or authorization to do business denied, revoked, or suspended in the two years immediately preceding the application. In the event of any such denial, revocation or suspension, the individual shall state the date, the name of the issuing or denying jurisdiction, and describe in full the reasons for the denial, revocation, or suspension and the length of the suspension. A copy of any order of denial, revocation, or suspension shall be attached to the application if applicable.
(4) Whether the individual has been convicted of a specified criminal act as defined in this chapter during the period set forth in Section 812.07 (c)(1)F. This information shall include the date, place, nature of each conviction and identify the convicting jurisdiction.
(5) Two identical passport-quality photographs of the individual, approximately two inches in size, taken within the preceding year, for use on the license and license application.
(6) Completed finger printing card.
(c) The Chief of Police shall grant or deny the license application within 15 days from the date of its proper filing. After receipt of an employee or independent contractor license under this section, the licensee shall have a continuing duty to promptly supplement the information required by this section in the event that said information changes in any material way. The failure to comply with said continuing duty within 20 days from the date of such change shall be grounds for suspension of a license.
(d) The Chief of Police shall refer the license application to the Division of Police for an investigation to be made of such information as is contained on the license application.. After the investigation, the Chief of Police shall issue a license unless the report from the Division of Police finds that one or more of the following findings is true:
(1) That the individual is under 18 years of age;
(2) That the individual has been convicted of a specified criminal act as described in Section 812.077(c)(1)F;
(3) That the individual has had an employee and independent contractor license revoked by the City within two years of the date of the current license application or suspended three or more times within years of the date of the current license application.
(e) Upon receipt by the Chief of Police of a properly completed License application, the license applicant, if 18 years of age or older, may work or perform services pursuant to a temporary license, which shall be issued by the Chief of Police within five business days of the time the license application is made. This temporary license shall be in force until such time as the employee and independent contractor license is issued or the decision to deny the employee and independent contractor license becomes final pursuant to Section 812.26. The license applicant shall keep the temporary license on his or her person or on the permitted premises where the license applicant is then working or performing services and produce such license for inspection upon request by a law enforcement officer or other authorized City official. Employees and/or independent contractors who commence working while approval or denial is pending do so at their own risk as to the costs involved, but shall not be subject to prosecution for failure to obtain a license, unless the license application is denied and the employment is continued thereafter.
(f) An employee or independent contractor license granted pursuant to this section shall be subject to annual renewal by the Chief of Police upon the written license application of the individual and a finding by the Chief of Police and the Division of Police that the individual has not been convicted of any specified criminal act as defined in this chapter, or committed any act during the existence of the previous license period which would be grounds to deny the initial license application.
(1) The renewal of the employee or independent contractor license shall be subject to payment of an annual fee as determined from time to time by City Council.
(2) The appeal process set out in Section 812.26 shall apply to employee or independent contractor license.
(Ord. 08-13. Passed 6-16-08.)