18.20.020, 18.20.030, 18.20.040

Other

• Alcohol prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

  No alcoholic beverages shall be served or consumed on the premises of any sexually oriented business. No person shall bring any alcohol on to the premises of any sexually oriented business.

• Alcohol prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

  No alcoholic beverages shall be allowed within the body art facility at any time.

• Minimum illumination of parking areas1 foot-candles

  All off-street parking area and premise entries of the sexually oriented business shall be illuminated from dusk to a half hour after closing hours of operation with a lighting system which provides an average maintained horizontal illumination of one foot-candle of light on the parking surface and/or walkways.

• Minimum age for patrons/employees18 years

  Admittance of a person under eighteen years of age to the business premises; A person under eighteen years of age to remain at the business premises; A person under eighteen years of age to purchase goods or services at the business premises; or A person who is under eighteen years of age to work at the businesses premises as an employee

• Minimum distance between body art facilities500 ft

  No person shall cause or permit the establishment of any body art facility, as defined above, within five hundred feet of another such business...

• Minimum distance between sexually oriented businesses1,500 ft

  Distance between any two sexually oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior structural wall of each business.

• Minimum distance from sensitive land uses1,500 ft

  The distance between any sexually oriented business and any religious institution, school, boys club, girls club or similar existing youth organization, or public park or public building regularly frequented by children or any properties zoned for residential use shall also be measured in a straight line...

• Minimum distance from sensitive uses500 ft

  ...or within five hundred feet of any religious institution, school, boys' club, girls' club or similar existing youth organization, or public park, or any public building regularly frequented by children, including, but not limited to, the McDermont Field House and Community Aquatics and Wellness Center or within five hundred feet of any property in the City of Lindsay zoned for residential use.

• Mobile body art prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

  Mobile body art shall not be allowed at any time within the city limits.

• Nudity prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

  No person shall appear in a state of nudity at any time, including during on-stage or private viewing booth performances of adult live entertainment. Persons may appear semi-nude while performing adult live entertainment.

• Operating hours

  A sexually oriented business shall be open for business only between the hours of seven a.m. and midnight on any particular day. This restriction shall not apply to adult motels.

• Operating hours

  Body art facilities may be open for operation only between the hours of seven a.m. and midnight.

• Permanent structure required

  A sexually oriented business shall only be located in a structure with a permanent foundation and fixed walls, and shall not be located, wholly or partially, within any mobile structure, pushcart, trailer, bungalow, recreational vehicle, or any other non-permanent type of facility.

• Permit required

  No person shall operate, maintain, manage or conduct a sexually oriented business without a valid sexually oriented business permit issued by the city for the particular type of sexually oriented business.

• Permit required

  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, owning, controlling, leasing, acting as agent for, conducting, managing, or operating any body art facility to practice or engage in the practice of body art without first obtaining a body art facility permit and meeting all applicable zoning district and this chapter standards.

• Permit required

  The purpose of this section is to protect the health, welfare and safety of the public at large and patrons of fortunetelling establishments by ensuring that the services provided by those establishments are, to the greatest extent possible, free from fraud, corruption, vice, trickery and other criminal influences.

• Physical contact prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

  No entertainer, either before, during or after performance, 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.

• Security guard required1 guard

  Sexually oriented businesses featuring live entertainment shall provide at least one security guard at all times while the business is open. If the occupancy limit of the premises is greater than twenty-one persons, an additional security guard shall be on duty.

• Minimum distance from stage to patrons10 ft

  ...which is separated by a distance of at least ten feet from the nearest area occupied by patrons, and no patron shall be permitted within ten feet of the stage while the stage is occupied by an entertainer.

• Minimum stage heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.1.5 ft

  No person shall perform adult live entertainment for patrons of a sexually oriented business except upon a stage at least eighteen inches above the level of the floor...

• Visibility required

  The entire interior of an adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult cabaret, adult video arcade, nude model studio, and any non-conforming sexual encounter establishment and the entire concession area of an adult motion picture theater or adult theater, the entire common areas of an adult motel, and the entire exhibition area of an adult motion picture theater or adult theater, shall be visible upon entrance to such areas.