§ 2.5-24. Sexually oriented businesses; commercial physical contact parlors; escort services.

(a)

Sexually oriented businesses. In addition to the general requirements for an adult entertainment establishment contained in section 2.5-21, a sexually oriented business (commercial physical contact parlor or escort service) shall comply with the following special requirements:

(1)

Post in an open and conspicuous place and file with the city manager or his designee a list of services provided by the sexually oriented business described in readily understandable language with a specification of the cost of such services. Actual services and prices offered or provided shall be limited to those listed.

(2)

Not increase the incentive or temptation for workers to engage in prostitution or lewdness by allowing any worker of the sexually oriented business to accept any tips or gratuities received indirectly or directly from a customer in addition to the service fee amounts specified in the establishments list of services.

(3)

Maintain a daily register recording all service and sale transactions on a form provided by the city manager or his designee, containing records of all customers with names, addresses, time expended, services purchased and mode of payment and name of all workers who provided services and sold goods. The daily register since the first Monday of the previous month shall be provided on the first Monday of every month to the city manager or his designee.

(b)

Commercial physical contact parlors. In addition to the general requirements for an adult entertainment establishment contained in section 2.5-21 and the general requirements for a sexually oriented business contained in subsection (a) of this section, a commercial physical contact parlor shall comply with the following special requirements:

(1)

Operate only from a fixed physical commercial location at which are displayed its sexually oriented business adult entertainment license and all other required occupational licenses.

(2)

Provide clean linen and towels for each customer without any reuse of towels or linens without relaundering, provided however, that heavy white paper may be substituted for sheets, provided that such paper is used only for one (1) customer, then discarded into a sanitary receptacle.

(3)

Provide closed cabinets for the storage of clean linen, towels and other materials used in connection with administering commercial physical contact.

(4)

Disinfect and sterilize all nondisposable instruments and materials after use on each customer.

(5)

Require each worker to wear a clean outer garment in the nature of a surgical gown when providing commercial physical contact, and during all other times during working hours conceal, with a fully opaque covering, all specified anatomical areas of his or her body.

(6)

Inform all customers in writing to cover his or her specified anatomical areas by a towel, cloth, robe, undergarment, swimsuit or other similar fully opaque material while in the presence of a worker.

(7)

Not permit, suffer, or allow any animal, except a service animal for those persons who depend on a service animal to assist them with a bona fide disability, to be on the premises of the commercial physical contact parlor.

(8)

If both male and female customers are to be served simultaneously, provide two (2) separate work areas for providing commercial physical contact, one (1) for males and the other for females.

(9)

Configure all work areas where commercial physical contact is to be provided so that the area is readily visible at all times from common areas of the establishment outside of the work area.

(c)

Escort services. In addition to the general requirements for an adult entertainment establishment contained in section 2.5-21 and the general requirements for a sexually oriented business contained in section 2.5-24(a), an escort service shall comply with the following special requirements:

(1)

If offering or providing escorts within the city, an escort service must notify the city manager or his designee of an authorized physical commercial location, which may or may not be within the city, from where the escort service operates and dispatches escorts.

(2)

Include in all advertising or promotional literature posted, placed, published, or distributed within the city the number of a valid adult entertainment establishment/escort service license issued by the city manager or his designee unless the escort service does not refer, send, or dispatch escorts to any location within the jurisdictional limits of the city.

(3)

Ensure that every escort and worker of an escort service is provided or obtains, carries while working as an escort, and displays upon the request of any law enforcement officer, an occupational license to engage in the occupation of escort within the city. Exception: an escort or worker of an escort service who is a paid employee for whom taxes and social security payments are withheld and paid by the escort service, and who is not an independent contractor, may substitute and carry a copy of the adult entertainment escort service license of the employing escort service.

(Ord. No. 825, § 1, 6-5-1986; Ord. No. 1204, § 3, 9-2-1999)