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5.43.170 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR ADULT CABARETS.

The following additional requirements shall apply to adult cabarets and the failure to comply with every such requirement shall be grounds for revocation of the permit issued pursuant to this chapter:

(a) The building entrance to an adult cabaret shall be clearly and legibly posted with a notice indicating that persons under eighteen (18) years of age are precluded from entering the premises. Said notice shall be constructed and posted to the satisfaction of the Community Development Director or designee. No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be permitted within the premises at any time.

(b) No person shall perform live entertainment for patrons of an adult cabaret except upon a stage at least eighteen (18) inches above the level of the floor which is separated by a distance of at least ten (10) feet from the nearest area occupied by patrons, and no patron shall be permitted within ten (10) feet of the stage while the stage is occupied by an entertainer. "Entertainer' shall mean any person who is an employee or independent contractor of the adult cabaret, or any person who, with or without any compensation or other form of consideration, performs live entertainment for patrons of an adult cabaret.

(c) The adult cabaret shall provide separate dressing room facilities for entertainers which are exclusively dedicated to the entertainers' use.

(d) No entertainer, either before, during or after performances, shall have physical contact with any patron and no patron shall have physical contact with any entertainer either before, during, or after performances by such entertainer. This subsection shall only apply to physical contact on the premises of the adult cabaret.

(e) Fixed rail(s) at least thirty (30) inches in height shall be maintained establishing the separations between entertainers and patrons required by this subsection.

(f) No patron shall directly pay or give any gratuity to any entertainer and no entertainer shall solicit any pay or gratuity from any patron.

(g) No owner or other person with managerial control over an adult cabaret shall permit any person on the premises of the adult cabaret to engage in a live showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a fully opaque coverage, and/or the female breast with less than a fully opaque coverage over any part of the nipple or areola and/or covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. This provision may not be complied with by applying an opaque covering simulating the appearance of the specified anatomical part required to be covered.

(h) No performance shall be staged within an adult cabaret so as to be visible from the exterior of the premises through any window or other aperture, including any door, whether open or closed.