(a)
An
escort agency shall not employ any person under the age of eighteen
(18) years.
(b)
A
person commits an offense if he acts as an escort or agrees to act
as an escort for any person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
(2001 Code, sec. 114.15)
(a)
A
nude model studio shall not employ any person under the age of eighteen
(18) years.
(b)
A
person under the age of eighteen (18) years commits an offense if
he appears in a state of nudity or semi-nudity in or on the premises
of a nude model studio. It is a defense to prosecution under this
subsection if the person under eighteen (18) years was in a restroom
not open to public view or persons of the opposite sex.
(c)
A
person commits an offense if he appears in a state of nudity or semi-nudity
or knowingly allows another to appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity
in an area of a nude model studio premises which can be viewed from
the public right-of-way.
(d)
A
nude model studio shall not place or permit a bed, sofa, or mattress
in any room on the premises, except that a sofa may be placed in a
reception room open to the public.
(2001 Code, sec. 114.16)
(a)
A
person commits an offense if he knowingly allows a person under the
age of eighteen (18) years to appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity
in or on the premises of an adult theater or adult motion picture
theater.
(b)
A
person under the age of eighteen (18) years commits an offense if
he knowingly appears in a state of nudity or semi-nudity in or on
the premises of an adult theater or adult motion picture theater.
(2001 Code, sec. 114.17)
(a)
Evidence
that a sleeping room in a hotel, motel, or similar commercial establishment
has been rented and vacated two (2) or more times in a period of time
of less than ten (10) hours creates a rebuttable presumption that
the establishment is an adult motel as that term is defined in this
article.
(b)
A
person commits an offense if, as the person in control of a sleeping
room in a hotel, motel, or similar commercial establishment that does
not have a sexually oriented business license, he rents or subrents
a sleeping room to a person and, within ten (10) hours from the time
the room is rented, he rents or subrents the same sleeping room again.
(2001 Code, sec. 114.18)
(a)
A
person who operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business,
other than an adult motel, which exhibits on the premises, in a viewing
room of less than one hundred fifty (150) square feet of floor space,
a film, videocassette, or other video reproduction which depicts specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, shall comply with
the following requirements:
(1)
Upon application for a sexually oriented business license, the application
shall be accompanied by a diagram of the premises showing a plan thereof
specifying the location of one (1) or more manager’s stations,
the location of all overhead lighting fixtures and switches, and which
lights are controlled by which switches, and designating any portion
of the premises in which patrons will not be permitted. Only agents
or employees shall have access to light switches. A manager’s
station may not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet of floor area.
The diagram shall also designate the place at which the permit will
be conspicuously posted if granted. A professionally prepared diagram
in the nature of an engineer’s or architect’s blueprint
shall not be required; however, each diagram should be oriented to
the north or to some designated street or object and should be drawn
to a designated scale or with marked dimensions sufficient to show
the various internal dimensions of all areas of the interior of the
premises to an accuracy of plus or minus six inches (6"). The mayor
may waive the foregoing diagram for renewal applications if the applicant
adopts a diagram that was previously submitted and certifies that
the configuration of the premises has not been altered since it was
prepared.
(2)
The application shall be sworn to be true and correct by the applicant.
(3)
No alteration in the configuration or location of a manager’s
station may be made without the prior approval of the mayor.
(4)
It is the duty of the owners and operator of the premises to ensure
that at least one (1) employee is on duty and situated in each manager’s
station at all times that any patron is present inside the premises.
(5)
The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner
that there is an unobstructed view from a manager’s station
of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access
for any purpose, excluding restrooms. Restrooms may not contain video
reproduction equipment. If the premises shall be configured in such
a manner that there is an unobstructed view of each area of the premises
to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose from at least
one (1) of the manager’s stations [sic]. The view required in
this subsection must be by direct line of sight from the manager’s
station.
(6)
It shall be the duty of the owners and operator, and it also shall be the duty of any agents and employees present in the premises, to ensure that the view area specified in subsection (a)(5) of this section remains unobstructed by any doors, walls, merchandise, display racks or other materials at all times that any patron is present on the premises and to ensure that no patron is permitted access to any area of the premises which has been designated as an area in which patrons will not be permitted in the application filed pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this section.
(7)
The premises shall be equipped with overhead lighting fixtures of
sufficient intensity to illuminate every place to which patrons are
permitted access at an illumination of not less than one (1.0) footcandle
as measured at the floor level.
(8)
It shall be the duty of the owners and operator, and it also shall
be the duty of any agents and employees present on the premises, to
ensure that the illumination described above is maintained at all
times that any patron is present on the premises.
(2001 Code, sec. 114.19)
(a)
A
person commits an offense if, in a business establishment open to
persons under the age of seventeen (17) years, he displays a book,
pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, film, or videocassette, the cover of
which depicts, in a manner calculated to arouse sexual lust or passion
for commercial gain or to exploit sexual lust or perversion for commercial
gain, any of the following:
(1)
Human sexual intercourse, masturbation, or sodomy;
(2)
Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region,
buttocks, or female breasts;
(3)
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, buttocks,
or that portion of the female breast below the top of the areola;
or
(4)
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, whether covered
or uncovered.
(b)
In
this section, “display” means to locate an item in such
a manner that, without obtaining assistance from an agent or employee
of the business establishment:
(2001 Code, sec. 114.20)
