The intent of this chapter is to regulate businesses which, unless closely regulated, tend to have serious secondary effects on the community, which effects include, but are not limited to, the following: depreciation of property values and increase in vacancies in residential and commercial areas in the vicinity of adult businesses; interference with residential property owners' enjoyment of their property when such property is located in the vicinity of adult businesses as a result of increases in crime, litter, noise and vandalism; higher crime rates in the vicinity of adult businesses; and blighting conditions such as low-level maintenance of commercial premises and parking lots, which thereby have a deleterious effect upon adjacent areas. Special regulation of these businesses is necessary to prevent these adverse effects and the blighting or degradation of the neighborhoods in the vicinity of the adult businesses.
It is neither the intent nor the effect of this chapter to impose limitations or restrictions on the content of any communicative material. Similarly, it is neither the intent nor the effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access by adults to adult-oriented materials or to deny access by the distributors or exhibitors of adult businesses to their intended market.
Nothing in this chapter is intended to authorize, legalize or permit the establishment, operation or maintenance of any business, building or use which violates any city ordinance or any statute of the state of California regarding public nuisances, unlawful or indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewdness or obscene or harmful matter or the exhibition or public display thereof.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994)
"Adult bookstore"
means any establishment, which as a regular and substantial portion of its business, displays and/or distributes adult merchandise, books, periodicals, magazines, photographs, drawings, sculptures, motion pictures, videos, films or other visual representations which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activity or specified anatomical parts. See "adult business" for definition of the term "regular and substantial portion of its business."
"Adult business"
means any business establishment or concern which as a regular and substantial course of conduct performs or operates as an adult bookstore, adult theater, adult motion picture arcade, adult cabaret, adult motel/hotel, or sells or distributes adult merchandise or adult material, or any other business or concern which as a regular and substantial portion of its business offers to its patrons products, merchandise, services or entertainment which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts but not including those uses or activities, the regulation of which is preempted by state law. "Adult business" shall also include any establishment which as a regular and substantial course of conduct provides or allows performers, models, or employees to appear in any public place in lingerie. As used in this chapter, the terms "regular and substantial course of conduct" and "regular and substantial portion of its business" means any adult business where one or more of the following conditions exist:
1. 
The area(s) devoted to the display of adult merchandise and/or adult material exceeds fifteen percent of the square footage of the total floor area of the business used for display purposes; or
2. 
The business or concern presents any type of live entertainment characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activity or specified anatomical parts, or performers, models or employees appearing in public in lingerie on any four or more separate days for any period of time per day within any thirty-day period; or
3. 
At least fifty percent of the gross receipts of the business are derived from the sale, trade, display or presentation of services, products, or entertainment which are characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.
"Adult cabaret"
means a nightclub, bar, restaurant or similar establishment or concern which features any type of live entertainment characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.
"Adult hotel/motel"
means a hotel or motel, which: (i) as a regular and substantial course of conduct provides to its patrons, through the provision of rooms equipped with closed-circuit television, video recorders or players or other medium, material which is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts; and/or (ii) rents, leases or lets any room for less than six-hour period, or rents, leases or lets any single room more than twice in a twenty-four hour period. See "adult business" for definition of the term "regular and substantial course of conduct."
"Adult material"
means any adult merchandise, or any book, periodical, magazine, photograph drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, video tape recording, or other visual representation, characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specific sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.
"Adult merchandise"
means sex-oriented implements or paraphernalia, such as, but not limited to: dildos, auto sucks, sex-oriented vibrators, edible underwear, benwa balls, inflatable orifices, anatomical balloons with orifices, simulated and/or battery operated vaginas, and similar sex-oriented devices which are designed or marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or sadomasochistic activity.
"Adult motion picture arcade"
means any business establishment or concern containing any manually operated, coin or slug operated, or electrically or electronically operated or controlled, still or motion picture or video tape machines, projectors, players or other image producing devices that are maintained to display images to five or fewer persons per machine or per viewing room at any one time when those images are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.
"Adult motion picture theater"
means a business establishment or concern which projects and presents motion pictures, video tape recordings, slide photographs, or other motion or still pictures which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.
"Adult theater"
means a theater, concert hall, auditorium or similar establishment which features live performances which are characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified anatomical parts or by specified sexual activities.
"Business supervisor"
means the director of licensing and code enforcement of the city of Hawthorne or his or her designee.
Owner or permit holder or permittee.
For purposes of this chapter, "owner," "permit holder" or "permittee" means any of the following: (i) the sole proprietor of an adult business; or (ii) any general partner of a partnership which owns and operates an adult business; or (iii) the owner of a controlling interest in a corporation which owns and operates an adult business; or (iv) the person designated by the officers of a corporation to be the permit holder for an adult business owned and operated by the corporation.
"Specified anatomical parts"
means:
1. 
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals; pubic hair; buttocks; natal cleft; perineum; anal region; pubic hair region; or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or
2. 
Human male genitals in a discernably turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
"Specified sexual activities"
means:
1. 
Actual or simulated: sexual intercourse, oral copulation, anal intercourse, oral anal copulation, bestiality, masturbation, direct physical stimulation of unclothed genitals, flagellation or torture in the context of a sexual relationship, or the use of excretory function in the context of a sexual relationship; or any of the following depicted sexuallyoriented acts or conduct, whether actual or simulated: analingus, buggery, coprophagy, coprophilia, cunnilingus, fellatio, necrophilia, pederasty, pedophilia, pedophilia, sapphism, urophilia, zooerastia, zoophilia; or
2. 
Clearly depicted human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation, arousal or tumescence; or
3. 
Use of human or animal ejaculation; or
4. 
Fondling or erotic or sexually-oriented touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, natal left, anal region or female breast; or
5. 
Masochism; erotic or sexually-oriented torture, beating or the infliction of pain; or
6. 
Erotic or lewd touching, fondling, or other sexually-oriented contact with an animal by a human being; or
7. 
Human excretion, urination, menstruation, vaginal or anal irrigation; or
8. 
Striptease, or the removal of clothing, or the wearing of transparent or diaphanous clothing, including models appearing in lingerie, to the point where specified anatomical parts are exposed.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)
A. 
Person(s) required to obtain a business license pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for any business establishment which provides products, merchandise, services or entertainment which is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts, as defined in Section 5.92.020 of this code, shall maintain complete records which can be segregated with regard to all transactions involving such products, merchandise, services or entertainment which are sufficient to establish the percentage of gross receipts of the business which is derived from such transactions. The term "gross receipts" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.04.260 of this code. Such records shall be maintained for a period of at least three years.
B. 
No person required to keep records under this section shall refuse to allow authorized representatives of the director of licensing and code enforcement to examine said records at reasonable times and places.
C. 
This Section 5.92.030 shall not be applicable to an adult business establishment for which such transactions constitute less than fifteen percent of the gross receipts of the business.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)
A. 
Permit Required. It is unlawful for any person or entity to operate, engage in, conduct or carry on any adult business within the city of Hawthorne unless the owner of said business first obtains, and continues to maintain in full force and effect, both an adult business permit and a business license from the city of Hawthorne for such business.
B. 
Persons Eligible. The owner of the proposed adult business, as defined in Section 5.92.020, shall be the only person eligible to obtain an adult business permit.
C. 
Application Requirements. The following information and items shall be submitted to the director of licensing and code enforcement by the owner at the time of applying for an adult business permit:
1. 
A completed adult business permit application form signed by: (i) the owner of the proposed adult business, and (ii) either the record owner of the property (or the authorized agent of the record owner) or, if the business premises are subleased to the applicant business, the sublessor of the premises, certifying under penalty of perjury that all of the information upon or submitted with the application is true and correct to the best of his or her information and belief;
2. 
A nonrefundable deposit or processing fee in an amount set by resolution of the city council;
3. 
A letter of justification, describing the proposed business and explaining how it will satisfy the application requirements set forth in Section 5.92.060 of this chapter;
4. 
A site plan designating the building and/or unit proposed for the adult business and a dimensional interior floor plan depicting how the business will comply with all applicable requirements of this chapter;
5. 
All other information required by the director of licensing and code enforcement.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)
The director of licensing and code enforcement shall, within twenty city business days of the filing of a complete permit application, approve and issue the adult business permit if the requirements of this chapter have been met; otherwise the permit shall be denied. Notice of the approval or denial of the permit shall be given to the owner in writing by first class mail, postage prepaid, deposited in the course of transmission with the United States Postal Service within three city business days of the date of such decision. The times set forth in this subsection shall not be extended except upon the written consent of the applicant. The decision of the director of licensing and code enforcement shall be final.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)
The director of licensing and code enforcement shall approve and issue an adult business permit if the application and evidence submitted show that:
A. 
The adult business is not proposed to be located within five hundred feet of any residential zone or residential use, whether such residential zone or use is within or outside the corporate boundaries of the city of Hawthorne.
B. 
The adult business is not proposed to be located within one thousand feet of any lot upon which there is located any religious institution, public park, any public or private elementary, secondary, middle, junior high or high school, whether such use is within or outside the corporate boundaries of the city of Hawthorne.
C. 
The adult business is not proposed to be located within one thousand feet of another adult business not located within the same premises and under the same ownership and control, whether such other business is within or outside the corporate boundaries of the city of Hawthorne.
D. 
The adult business is not proposed to be located within five hundred feet of any property upon which is located a business which has either an on-sale or off-sale alcoholic beverage license, whether such use is within or outside the corporate boundaries of the city of Hawthorne.
E. 
The adult business is located in the M-2 zone as required by Section 17.34.020 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code.
F. 
For the purposes of this Section 5.92.060, all distances shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest point of the premises where said adult business is conducted to the nearest property line of any lot upon which are located the uses stated in subsections (A) through (F) of this Section 5.92.060. The word "premises," shall mean the building (if the adult business occupies the entire building), or separate portion of any building, used for an adult business.
G. 
The adult business will not be located, in whole or in part, within any portable structure.
H. 
The adult business will not conduct or sponsor any special events, promotions, festivals, concerts or similar activities which would increase the demand for parking spaces beyond the approved number of spaces for the business.
I. 
The adult business will not conduct any massage, acupuncture, figure modeling, tattooing, accupressure or escort services and will not allow such activities on the premises.
J. 
Any adult business which allows customers to remain on the premises while viewing any live, filmed or recorded entertainment, or while using or consuming the products or services supplied on the premises, shall conform to the following requirements:
1. 
At lease one security guard shall be on duty outside the premises, patrolling the grounds and parking areas, at all times while the business is open. The security guard shall be charged with preventing violations of law and enforcing compliance by patrons with the requirements of this chapter, and notifying the Hawthorne police department and code enforcement department of any violations of law observed. Any security guard required by this subparagraph shall be uniformed in such manner as to be readily identifiable as a security guard by the public. No security guard required pursuant to this subparagraph shall act as a door person, ticket seller, ticket taker or admittance person while acting as a security guard.
2. 
The adult business has complied with any landscaping requirements related to off-street parking set forth in Section 17.58.040 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code.
3. 
The entire exterior grounds, including the parking lot, shall be lighted in accordance with standards promulgated by the planning director.
4. 
The premises within which the adult business is located shall provide sufficient sound-absorbing insulation so that noise generated inside said premises shall not be audible anywhere on any adjacent property or public right-of-way or within any other building or other separate unit within the same building.
5. 
No exterior door on the premises shall be propped or kept open at any time while the business is open and any exterior windows shall be covered with opaque coverings at all times.
6. 
Permanent barriers shall be installed and maintained to screen the interior of the premises from public view or each door used as an entrance/exit to the business.
7. 
In addition to conforming to the signage standards set forth in Chapter 17.35 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code, an adult business shall be subject to the following limitations with respect to on-premises signage:
a. 
Logos showing nude, topless or bottomless female or male torsos shall be prohibited.
b. 
Painted-on-the-wall signs shall be prohibited.
c. 
Reference to nude, topless or bottomless females or males shall be prohibited.
8. 
All indoor areas of the adult business within which patrons are permitted except rest rooms, shall be open to view at all times.
9. 
No adult material or adult merchandise shall be displayed in such manner as to be visible from any location other than within the premises occupied by the adult business.
10. 
No person under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted within the premises at any time.
11. 
The adult business shall comply with the parking and development standards applicable to the M-2 zone.
12. 
The adult business shall provide and maintain separate restroom facilities for male patrons and employees and female patrons and employees. Male patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for females, and female patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for males, except to carry out duties of repair, maintenance and cleaning of the restroom facilities. The restrooms shall be free from all adult materials and adult merchandise. Restrooms shall not contain television monitors or other motion picture or video projection, recording or reproduction equipment. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not be applicable to adult business which deals exclusively with sale or rental of merchandise which is not used or consumed on the premises, such as an adult bookstore, and which does not provide rest room facilities to its patrons or the general public.
13. 
Except as otherwise required by law for adult motion picture theaters, all areas of the adult business accessible to a patron shall be illuminated a minimum of twenty footcandles evenly distributed at ground level.
14. 
"Individual viewing area" means a viewing area designed for occupancy by one person. Individual viewing areas of the adult business shall be operated and maintained without any hole or other opening or means of direct communication or visual or physical access between the interior space of two or more individual viewing areas.
15. 
The following additional regulations shall pertain to adult motion picture arcades which provide more than one viewing area:
a. 
Upon application for an adult business permit, the application shall be accompanied by a diagram of the premises showing a plan thereof specifying the location of one or more manager's stations, the location of all overhead lighting fixtures and designating any portion of the premises in which patrons will not be permitted. A manager's station may not exceed thirty-two square feet of floor area with no dimension greater than eight feet. The diagram shall also designate the place at which the adult business permit and city business license will be conspicuously posted. A professionally prepared diagram in the nature of an engineer's or architect's blueprint shall not be required; however, each diagram shall be oriented to the north or to some designated street or object and shall be drawn to a designated scale with marked dimensions sufficient to show the various internal dimension of all areas of the interior of the premises to an accuracy of plus or minus six inches. The director of licensing and code enforcement shall waive the foregoing diagram for renewal applications if the owner adopts a diagram that was previously submitted and certifies that the configuration of the premises has not been altered since it was prepared.
b. 
The application shall be sworn to be true and correct by the owner under penalty of perjury.
c. 
No alteration in the configuration or location of a manager's station(s) may be made without the prior approval of the director of licensing and code enforcement.
d. 
It is the duty of the owner(s) to insure that at least one employee is on duty and situated at each manager's station at all times that any patron is present inside the premises.
e. 
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 rest rooms. If the premises has two or more manager's stations designated, then the interior of 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, excluding rest rooms, from at least one of the manager's stations. The view required in this subsection must be by direct line of sight from the manager's station.
f. 
It shall be the duty of the owner(s) and it shall also be the duty of all employees present on the premises to insure that the view area specified in subsection (e) remains unobstructed by any doors, walls, persons, merchandise, display racks or other materials at all times and to insure 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 subparagraph (a) of this paragraph.
g. 
No individual viewing area may be occupied by more than one person at any one time.
h. 
The premises shall be equipped with overhead lighting fixtures of sufficient intensity to illuminate every place to which patrons are permitted access with an illumination of not less than ten foot-candle as measured at the floor level.
i. 
It shall be the duty of the owner(s) and it shall also be the duty of all employees present on the premises to insure that the illumination described above is maintained at all times that any patron is present on the premises.
16. 
The following additional regulations shall pertain to adult businesses providing live entertainment depicting specified anatomical parts or involving specified sexual activities:
a. 
No person shall perform live adult entertainment for patrons of an adult business except upon a stage at least eighteen inches above the level of the floor.
b. 
The adult business shall provide separate dressing room facilities for entertainers which are exclusively dedicated to the entertainer's use.
c. 
The adult business shall provide an entrance/exit to the premises for entertainers which is separate from the entrance/exit used by patrons.
d. 
Fixed rails at least thirty inches in height shall be maintained establishing the separations between entertainers and patrons.
K. 
The foregoing applicable requirements of this Section 5.92.060 shall be deemed conditions of permit approval, and failure to comply with each and all of such requirements shall be grounds for revocation of the adult business permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
L. 
Submitting false or misleading information on the application shall constitute grounds for denial or revocation of the adult business permit.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1635 §§ 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 1997; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)
Minors and Intoxicated Persons Excluded. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person having responsibility for the operation of an adult business, to allow any person under the age of eighteen years to enter or remain on the premises of the business, whether or not such person having responsibility for the operation of an adult business has knowledge that the person is under the age of eighteen years; or to allow any obviously intoxicated person to enter or remain on the premises of the business. For the purposes of this section, the holder of an adult business permit, when present on the premises, and the manager of other person(s) in charge of the premises, are persons having responsibility for the operation of the business.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994)
An adult business permit shall be renewed on a year-to-year basis, provided that the permittee continues to meet the requirements that the adult business is operated in compliance with all applicable provisions of this chapter. A request for permit renewal must be accompanied by an adult business permit application, completed in full detail with current information, and payment of the renewal processing fee. If the application conforms to the previously approved application and the adult business has not changed, the permit shall be renewed by the director of licensing and code enforcement for another year. Notice of such renewal, or denial, shall be given, in writing, to the permittee within twenty city business days following the date of receipt of the completed renewal application. Any change or alteration in the location, nature or operation of the adult business will require a new application to be processed in the same manner as the original application.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)
No adult business permit shall be sold, transferred or assigned by any permit holder, or by operation of law, to any other person, group, partnership, corporation or any other entity, and any such sale, transfer or assignment shall be deemed to constitute a voluntary surrender of such permit, and such permit shall be thereafter null and void. An adult business permit held by an individual in a corporation or partnership is subject to the same rules of transferability as contained above. Any change in the nature or composition of the adult business from one type of adult business use to another type of adult business use shall also render the permit null and void. An adult business permit shall be valid only at the exact location specified in the permit.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994)
A. 
The permit holder shall allow officers of the city of Hawthorne and their authorized representatives to conduct unscheduled inspections of the premises of the adult business for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the law at any time the adult business is open for business or is occupied.
B. 
The director of licensing and code enforcement shall revoke an adult business permit when:
1. 
Any of the applicable requirements contained in Section 5.92.040 ceases to be satisfied;
2. 
The application is discovered to contain incorrect, false or misleading information;
3. 
The permit holder is convicted of a felony or misdemeanor occurring upon, or relating to the premises or lot upon which the adult business is located which offense is classified by the state as an offense involving sexual crime against children, sexual abuse, rape, distribution of obscene material or material harmful to minors, prostitution or pandering, including, but not necessarily limited to the violation of any crime requiring registration under California Penal Code Section 290, or any violation of Penal Code Sections 243.4, 261, 261.5, 264.1, 266, 266a through 266k, inclusive, 267, 286, 286.5, 288, 288a, 311 through 311.10, inclusive, 314, 315, 316 or 647;
4. 
If, on two or more occasions within a twelve-month period, a person or persons has (have) been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor for an offense set forth in subsection (3) above as a result of such person's activity on the premises or property on which the adult business is located, and the person or persons were employees, contractors or agents of the adult business at the time the offenses were committed;
5. 
If the permit holder or an employee has knowingly allowed prostitution, or solicitation for prostitution, on the premises; or
6. 
The adult business has been operated in violation of any of the requirements of this chapter and: (i) if the violation is of a continuous nature, the business continues to be operated in violation of such provisions for more than ten days following the date written notice of such violation is mailed or delivered to the owner, or (ii) if the violation is of a noncontinuous nature, two or more additional violations of the same provision, or four or more violations of any other of the provisions, of this chapter occur (regardless of whether notice of each individual violation is given to owner) within any twelve-month period.
C. 
Upon determining that grounds for permit revocation exist, the director of licensing and code enforcement shall furnish written notice of the proposed revocation to the permit holder. Such notice shall summarize the principal reasons for the proposed revocation; shall state that the permit holder may request a hearing within fifteen calendar days of the postmarked date on the notice; and shall be delivered both by posting the notice at the location of the adult business and by sending the notice by certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the permit holder as that name and address appear on the permit. Within fifteen calendar days after the later of the mailing or posting of the notice, the permit holder may file a request for hearing with the director of licensing and code enforcement. If the request for a hearing is filed within fifteen calendar days of the mailing or posting of the notice referred to herein, the business license supervisor shall transmit the request to the city manager, and the hearing shall be provided as set forth in subsection 5.92.110(D).
D. 
Upon receipt of a written request for a hearing, the city manager or his or her designee shall appoint a hearing officer ("hearing officer") to conduct a hearing. The hearing officer shall conduct a hearing within forty-five calendar days of the filing of such request by the permit holder. Notice of time and place of the hearing shall be given to the permit holder by personal service or via certified mail, postage prepaid, at least fifteen calendar days in advance of the date set for the public hearing. At the hearing, the permit holder and the city shall be entitled to present relevant evidence, testify under oath and call eyewitnesses who shall testify under oath. The hearing officer shall not be bound by the statutory rules of evidence in hearing, except that hearsay evidence may not be the sole basis for the determination of the hearing officer.
E. 
Within ten calendar days after the hearing, the hearing officer shall decide whether the grounds for revocation exist and shall submit a written report to the director of licensing and code enforcement. Such written report shall contain a brief summary of the evidence considered and shall state findings, conclusions and directives to the director of licensing and code enforcement regarding whether the permit is to be revoked. All such reports shall be filed with the city clerk and shall be public records. A copy of such report shall be forwarded by certified mail, postage prepaid, to the permit holder on the day it is filed with the city clerk. If the hearing officer determines that any grounds for revocation exist, as provided in Section 5.92.110(B) of this chapter, the license collector, based upon the report of the hearing officer or, if no hearing was requested by the permit holder, based upon the report of the city staff, shall immediately revoke the adult business permit. The decision of the hearing officer shall be appealable to the planning commission by the filing of a written appeal with the city clerk within fifteen calendar days following the date of mailing of such decision. A timely filed appeal shall vacate the decision of the hearing officer. Any such appeal shall be a de novo public hearing held in the manner and within the time limitations set forth in subsections (C) through (E) of this section. The decision of the planning commission upon appeal, or the decision of the director of licensing and code enforcement in the absence of a timely appeal, shall be final and conclusive.
F. 
No application for an adult business permit shall be accepted or processed for any person, corporation, partnership or member thereof, or any other entity for which an adult business permit has been revoked within the preceding three-year period.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)
Any adult business lawfully existing as of the effective date of the ordinance establishing this chapter becomes a nonconforming use by reason of the adoption of this chapter.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994; Ord. 2245, 11/24/2023)
Every person engaging in an adult business as defined in this chapter shall pay a business license fee based on gross receipts of such business as set forth in Chapter 5.48.
(Ord. 1573 § 1, 1994)