§ 62-6181. General requirements for all commercial physical contact parlor  


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  • Each commercial physical contact parlor is subject to all of the following general requirements and shall:

    (1)

    Conform to all applicable building, fire, environmental health, zoning, and land use statutes, codes, ordinances, and regulations, whether federal, state or local.

    (2)

    Keep the commercial physical contact parlor license posted in a conspicuous place at the establishment available for inspection by the public at all times.

    (3)

    Cover opaquely each window or other opening through which a person outside the establishment may otherwise see inside the establishment.

    (4)

    Maintain all exterior walls and surfaces of the establishment, excluding signs, a single color of either white or pastel, and shall maintain all awnings, canopies, window shutters or window treatment the same color or a single different shade of the same white or pastel color. Trim work around the roof shall not be of more than two additional pastel colors. The trim color shall not exceed 20 percent of the entire exterior surface of the building. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require the painting of an otherwise unpainted exterior portion of an establishment such as brick or stone.

    (5)

    Install, construct, keep, maintain, or allow only those signs at the establishment which comply with the Article IX, the county sign ordinance and the following:

    a.

    No sign shall contain any flashing lights, photographs, silhouettes, drawings or pictorial representations except for the logo of the establishment, provided that the logo does not depict any specified anatomical areas, or any portion of a male or female form at or below the clavicle.

    b.

    No sign shall contain in the name or logo of the establishment, or otherwise, any words or material which depict, describe, reference, or infer in any manner, sexual activities, specified anatomical areas, or the display of specified anatomical areas.

    (6)

    Provide to any law enforcement officer or code enforcement officer, during all hours of operation, access through the main entrance and into all areas of the establishment where customers are permitted without the necessity of using a key, computer entry, password or seeking clearance from a worker or customer to obtain entry though an electronically operated door or entryway.

    (7)

    Post in an open and conspicuous place and file with the sheriff's office, 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.

    (8)

    Provide each customer, in advance, with a separate written customer contract setting forth and specifying the services to be rendered, the cost of said services, the actual full legal name of the worker to provide said services, and the actual name, address, and telephone number of the customer to which the services are rendered. Actual services and prices offered or provided shall be limited to those specified.

    (9)

    Maintain a daily register recording all transactions on a form provided by the permitting and enforcement, containing records of all customers with names, addresses, time expended, services purchased and mode of payment and name of all workers who provided services together with a copy of each customer contract.

    (10)

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

    (11)

    Maintain all customer contracts and daily registers for a period of two years following the customer's date of service.

    (12)

    Operate only from a fixed physical commercial location at which are displayed its commercial physical contact parlors license and all other required business tax receipts.

    (13)

    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 customer, then discarded into a sanitary receptacle.

    (14)

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

    (15)

    Disinfect and sterilize all non-disposable instruments and materials after use on each customer.

    (16)

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

    (17)

    Inform all customers in their customer contract 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.

    (18)

    Not permit, suffer, or allow any animal, except a service animal, to be on the premises of the commercial physical contact parlor.

    (19)

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

    (20)

    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. Businesses existing on the effective date of this code which are regulated by this code shall be given six months from the effective date of this code to make any changes needed to come into compliance with this section. During this six-month period, no citations shall be given to such existing businesses for a violation of this provision (20).

(Ord. No. 01-26, § 27, 5-22-01; Ord. No. 2007-003, § 35, 2-20-07)