§ 21. ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS FOR SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES  


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  • (a)

    Public and employee restrooms in a sexually oriented business shall not, at any times, contain or be used for sexually oriented business activity, video reproduction equipment, or sexually oriented merchandise.

    (b)

    An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult video store, adult novelty store, adult service establishment, adult cabaret, adult theater, adult motion picture theater, nude model parlor, sex parlor and sexual encounter center shall at all times maintain at least one legible sign posted in a conspicuous place at each public entrance easily visible by all persons prior to entry into the establishment with lettering of at least one inch in height in English and Spanish which contains the following statement:

    "THIS IS A SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT WHICH REGULARLY FEATURES [designation of the type of activity licensed to be conducted] IF NUDITY OR ACTIVITY OF A SEXUAL NATURE OFFENDS YOU, DO NOT ENTER. NO PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE ALLOWED ENTRY [or "NO PERSON UNDER TWENTY-ONE YEARS ALLOWED ENTRY," if alcohol is served].

    (c)

    During hours of darkness when a sexually oriented business is in operation, all required parking and all outdoor pedestrian areas on the premises of the sexually oriented business shall be lighted to an intensity of not less five (5) footcandles measured as ground level.

(Ord. No. 2006-09, Sec. 21, adopted 8-15-06)