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Town of Smithfield, RI
Providence County
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[Adopted 3-11-1975 (Ch. 4, Art. III, of the 1985 Code of Ordinances)]
For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
ENTERTAINMENT
Any act, play, exhibition, review, pantomime, scene, song, dance act, song and dance act or band, conducted or participated in by any entertainer in or upon any premises to which patrons are admitted.
OPERATOR
Any person operating a place of entertainment in the Town of Smithfield, including but not limited to the owner or proprietor of such premises, lessee, sublessee, mortgagee in possession, permittee, manager or other employee or agent or any other person operating such place of entertainment or amusement.
PLACE OF ENTERTAINMENT
Every establishment which holds a liquor license by the Town of Smithfield and wherein entertainment as defined in this section is furnished or occurs upon the premises.
Any license holder under this Code who violates any portion of this article shall be subject to suspension or revocation of his license.
It is prohibited for any entertainer or any person while acting as a waiter or waitress, in any place of entertainment, to:
A. 
Expose his or her genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, natal cleft, anal region or pubic hair region;
B. 
Expose or employ any device, costume or cover which gives the appearance of or simulates the genitals or pubic hair region;
C. 
Expose any portion of the human breast at or below the areola thereof; or
D. 
Employ any device or covering which is intended to simulate such portion of the breast.
It is prohibited to display films depicting a live performance of any of the prohibited acts referred to in § 186-3.
A person shall be deemed to be an entertainer, waiter or waitress if such person acts in that capacity, without regard to whether or not such person is paid any compensation by the operator of the establishment in which the activity is performed.
The manager, owner, lessee or any other person operating a place of entertainment or amusement is prohibited from permitting any person to remain on the premises who engages in any of the prohibited acts referred to in § 186-3.