§ 10-303. Regulations.

(a)

No person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity shall advertise, or cause to be advertised, an erotic dance establishment without a valid adult entertainment establishment license issued pursuant to this article.

(b)

No later than March 1 of each year, an adult entertainment establishment licensee shall file a verified report with the license officer showing the licensee's gross receipts and amounts paid to dancers for the preceding calendar year.

(c)

An adult entertainment establishment licensee shall maintain and retain for a period of two (2) years the names, addresses and ages of all persons employed as dancers.

(d)

No adult entertainment establishment licensee shall employ or contract with as a dancer a person under the age of eighteen (18) years or a person not licensed pursuant to this article.

(e)

No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be admitted to an adult entertainment establishment.

(f)

An adult entertainment establishment may be open only between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. No adult entertainment establishment shall be open on Christmas Day.

(g)

An adult entertainment establishment licensee shall conspicuously display all licenses required by this article.

(h)

All dancing shall occur on a platform intended for that purpose which is raised at least two (2) feet from the level of the floor.

(i)

No dancing shall occur closer than ten (10) feet to any patron.

(j)

No dancer shall fondle or caress any patron and no patron shall fondle or caress any dancer.

(k)

No patron shall directly pay or give any gratuity to any dancer.

(l)

No dancer shall solicit any pay or gratuity from any patron.

(m)

All areas of an establishment licensed hereunder shall be fully lighted at all times patrons are present. Full lighting shall mean illumination equal to three and five-tenths (3.5) footcandles per square foot.

(n)

If any portion or subparagraph of this section, of this article, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder or application to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.

(o)

No adult entertainment establishment shall serve, sell, distribute or suffer the consumption or possession of any intoxicating liquor or controlled substance upon the premises of the licensee.

(Ord. No. 52-95, § I, 12-21-95)