As used in this chapter, the following terms shall be defined
as indicated:
ESCORT
Any person who, for a fee, commission, salary, hire, profit,
payment or other monetary consideration accompanies or offers to accompany
another person to or about social affairs, places of entertainment
or places of amusement or consorts with another person about any public
place or within any private quarters.
ESCORT SERVICE
A service provided by any person who, for a fee, commission,
salary, hire, profit, payment or other monetary consideration, furnishes
or offers to furnish names of persons, or who introduces, furnishes
or arranges for persons who may accompany other persons to or about
social affairs, places of entertainment or places of amusement, or
who may consort with others about any public place or within any private
quarters.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, corporation or other organization
operating, conducting, maintaining or owning any escort service.
This chapter does not apply to businesses, agencies and persons
licensed by the State of Wisconsin or the City of Franklin pursuant
to a specific statute or ordinance, and employees employed by a business
so licensed, and which perform an escort or an escort service function
as a service merely incidental to the primary function of such profession,
employment or business and which do not hold themselves out to the
public as an escort or an escort service.
The Common Council shall issue an escort service license if,
upon recommendation by the License Committee, it finds that:
A. The required fee has been paid;
B. The application conforms in all respects to this chapter;
C. The applicant has not knowingly made a material misstatement in the
application;
D. The applicant has fully cooperated in the investigation of his application;
E. The escort service, as proposed by the applicant, complies with all
applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the City's building
and zoning codes;
F. The applicant has not had an escort service license or permit or
other similar license or permit revoked or suspended in this state
or any other state within three years prior to the date of application;
G. The applicant, if a corporation, is licensed to do business and is
in good standing in the state;
H. All individual applicants, all shareholders, directors and officers
having significant responsibility for management of the business,
if the application is a corporation, or all partners, including limited
partners having significant responsibility for management of the business,
if the applicant is a partnership, are at least 18 years of age; and
I. The applicant, if an individual, any shareholders, officers, agents
and directors of a corporation having a significant responsibility
for management, if the business of the applicant is a corporation,
any of the partners, if the applicant is a partnership, has not within
five years prior to the date of application been convicted of a felony
or of any ordinance or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, prostitution
or any crime of a sexual nature, subject to the provisions of § 111.335,
Wis. Stats.
The escort service license shall be displayed in a conspicuous
public place in the escort service's place of business.
The Common Council shall issue an escort license if, upon recommendation
by the Licensing Committee, it finds that:
A. The required fee has been paid;
B. The application conforms in all respects to this chapter;
C. The applicant has not knowingly made a material misstatement in the
application;
D. The applicant has fully cooperated in the investigation of his application;
E. The applicant has not had an escort license or permit or other similar
license or permit revoked or suspended in this state or any other
state within three years prior to the date of application;
F. The applicant is at least 18 years of age; and
G. All applicants, if an individual, all shareholders, officers, agents
and directors of a corporation having a significant responsibility
for management, if the business of the applicant is a corporation
or all partners including limited partners, if the applicant is a
partnership, has or have not within five years prior to the date of
application been convicted of a felony or of any ordinance or misdemeanor
involving moral turpitude, prostitution or of any crime of a sexual
nature, subject to the provisions of § 111.335, Wis. Stats.
Any corporation holding an escort service license under this
chapter shall report to the City Clerk, in writing, within 15 days
of the event described herein, any of the following:
A. Any change of officers of the corporation.
B. Any change in the membership of the board of directors of the corporation.
Upon the sale or transfer of any interest in an escort service,
the license shall be void. Any person desiring to continue to operate
an escort service following sale or transfer shall apply for a license.
No license may be transferred to any other person.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be subject to a forfeiture of not less than $500
and not more than $2,000.