§ 6.140.020. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires or the words are otherwise defined below, the words and terms used in this chapter have the definitions set out in Chapters 12.08, 12.14, 12.20, 8.24 and 8.32 of the Clark County Code, and as ascribed to them in this section as follows:

(a)

"Applicant" means the person or business entity applying for a license, permit or work identification card and includes all officers, directors, stockholders, partners and all persons or business entities which share in profits.

(b)

"Entertainment" means something affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement (i.e., a performance of some kind) in a hotel or motel guest room by one or more entertainers for a fee.

(c)

"Outcall" or "entertainment by referral" service means a person or group of persons who send or refer another person to a hotel or motel guest room for a fee in response to a telephone call or other request for the purpose of entertaining the person located in the hotel or motel guest room.

(d)

"Business entity" means a group of persons, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other business association.

(e)

"Person" means a singular individual.

(f)

"Entertainer" means the person referred by the outcall entertainment business entity (entertainment by referral service), to visit the hotel or motel guest room of a patron for a fee for the purpose of providing entertainment to the person or persons in the hotel or motel guest room.

(g)

"Patron" means a person who requests an entertainer visit a hotel or motel guest room and either pays or agrees to pay the fee for such visit.

(h)

"Manager" means the responsible person employed by the outcall entertainment promoter (entertainment by referral service) to manage, supervise or oversee the day-to-day business operations of the outcall entertainment business (entertainment by referral service), and act as licensee's agent.

(i)

"Outcall promoter" means a person or business entity holding him, her or itself out as a source of outcall entertainers (entertainers by referral service) or one who engages in the business of providing outcall entertainment (entertainment by referral service) for a fee. For the purposes of this chapter, self-employed outcall entertainers are also considered "outcall promoters."

(j)

"Gross revenue" means gross earnings or gross receipts received by the outcall promoter (entertainment by referral service) from all business-related sources.

(k)

"Basic licensee's fee" means the fee announced, advertised or told by telephone communication or any other means, by an outcall entertainment business (entertainment by referral service) to a patron as the fee for providing outcall entertainment.

(l)

"Prostitution" means engaging in sexual intercourse, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact or any touching of the sexual organs, pubic region or female breast of a person with the intent of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either person for monetary consideration, whether by credit, cash, check or other consideration.

(Ord. 1421 § 1, 1992: Ord. 1340 § 2, 1991: Ord. 1069 § 1 (part), 1988: Ord. 1056 § 1 (part), 1987)