§ 6.170.090. Adult nightclub regulations.

(a) No person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity shall advertise adult entertainment or cause to be advertised, as an adult nightclub without a valid adult nightclub license issued pursuant to this chapter.

(b)

No later than the fifteenth day of the month succeeding the semiannual license period the adult nightclub establishment shall file, in conjunction with license fees, a verified report with the department showing the licensee's gross receipts and amounts paid to attendants and servers for the preceding semiannual period.

(c)

Licensee shall maintain and retain for a period of three years the names, any aliases, addresses, and ages of all persons employed as attendants or servers by the licensee.

(d)

No licensee shall employ as an attendant or server a person under the age of eighteen years, or a person who has not obtained a permit pursuant to this chapter.

(e)

No person under the age of eighteen years shall be admitted to an adult nightclub.

(f)

Licensee shall not serve, sell, distribute, or suffer the consumption or possession of any intoxicating liquor, or any beverage represented as containing any alcohol upon the premises of the licensee.

(g)

Licensee shall conspicuously display all licenses required by this chapter.

(h)

All communication, verbal, visual or physical, between attendants and patrons shall take place within an area which is visible immediately upon entrance to the establishment premises. Patrons shall not be allowed in private rooms with attendants.

(i)

No attendant or server shall fondle or caress any patron and no patron shall fondle or caress any attendant or server.

(j)

No patron shall directly pay or give any gratuity to any attendant or server for "sexual conduct," "sexual stimulation," or as to "offers to provide sexual conduct."

(k)

No attendant or server shall solicit any pay or gratuity from any patron.

(l)

Any adult nightclub, licensed pursuant to this chapter, which advertises or uses the words in its trade or place name that imply the availability of alcoholic liquor on the premises, such as "bar," "lounge," or "saloon," must state in all such advertisements that alcoholic beverages are not sold or allowed on the premises.

(m)

Adult nightclubs shall post a sign at each entrance door between four and six feet above the floor, or not more than five inches above each entrance doorway if no door is present during hours of operation, and in at least three places behind the bar a sign with letters not less than three inches high stating:

"ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR IS NOT SOLD HERE"
"PROSTITUTION IS UNLAWFUL"

The letters must be black on a yellow background. Each sign must be located and illuminated sufficient to be visible by a person with normal eyesight or eyesight corrected to 20/20, thirty feet from the sign.

(n)

No adult nightclub shall employ a security guard, or allow a security guard to work on the premises unless such security guard has obtained a work identification card pursuant to Section 6.50.060. No adult nightclub shall allow a security guard to carry a firearm, knife, night stick, club, or chemical or electronic weapon.

(o)

Any patron evicted from an adult nightclub shall receive a reimbursement of the full admission fee and the cost of such beverage provided it was represented as a drink which contains alcohol when sold.

(p)

No person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity shall publicly display or expose or suffer the public display or exposure, with less than a full opaque covering, of any portion of the female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola or of a person's genitals, pubic area or in a lewd and obscene fashion.

(q)

No adult nightclub licensee, attendant, server or security guard shall allow, permit, encourage, or tolerate any act of masturbation to occur on the premises.

(Ord. 1643 § 5, 1994: Ord. 1364 § 3, 1992: Ord. 1339 § 1 (part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 4332, § 5, 10-12-2015)