It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to provide for
the licensing of adult business performers in order to promote the
health, safety, and general welfare of the city. The goals of the
performer licensing provisions are:
A. To protect
minors by requiring that all performers be over the age of eighteen
years;
B. To assure
the correct identification of persons performing in adult businesses;
C. To enable
the city to deploy law enforcement resources effectively; and
D. To detect
and discourage the involvement of crime in adult businesses by precluding
the licensing of performers with certain sex-related convictions in
a set time period.
It is neither the intent nor the effect of these regulations
to invade the privacy of performers or to impose limitations or restrictions
on the content of any communicative material. Similarly, it is neither
the intent nor the effect of these regulations to restrict or deny
access by adults to communicative materials or to deny access by the
distributors or exhibitors of adult businesses to their intended lawful
market. Nothing in these regulations 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, obscene or harmful matter,
or the exhibition or public display thereof.
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The definitions contained in Chapter 5.22 of this code shall govern for purposes of these regulations.
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(Ord. 980 § 4, 2002)
The director of finance shall provide each adult business performer
required to have a license pursuant to this chapter with an identification
card containing the name, address, photograph, and permit number of
such performer. Every performer shall have such card available for
inspection at all times during which he or she is on the premises
of the adult business at which he or she performs.
(Ord. 980 § 4, 2002)
No adult business performer license may be sold, transferred,
or assigned by any licensee or by operation of law, to any other person,
group, partnership, corporation, or any other entity. Any such sale,
transfer, or assignment, or attempted sale, transfer, or assignment
shall be deemed to constitute a voluntary surrender of the adult business
performer license, and the license thereafter shall be null and void.
(Ord. 980 § 4, 2002)
All persons required by to obtain an adult business performer
license must apply for and obtain such adult business performer license
within thirty days of the effective date of this section. Failure
to do so and continued performance that displays "specified anatomical
areas" or "specified sexual activities" in an adult business after
such time without a permit or license shall constitute a violation
of this section.
(Ord. 980 § 4, 2002)
The provisions of this chapter regulating adult business performer
licenses are not intended to be exclusive, and compliance therewith
shall not excuse non-compliance with any other regulations pertaining
to the licensing provisions as adopted by the city council of the
city of Pico Rivera.
(Ord. 980 § 4, 2002)
If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase
of this chapter and the ordinance to which it is a part or any part
thereof is held for any reason to be unconstitutional, invalid, or
ineffective by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining
sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases
shall not be affected thereby. The city council hereby declares that
it would have adopted this chapter and the ordinance to which it is
a part regardless of the fact that one or more sections, subsections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases may be determined to be
unconstitutional, invalid or ineffective.
(Ord. 980 § 4, 2002)