§ 14-388. Requirements for premises and facilities.

A sexually oriented business which exhibits on the premises a film, videocassette, other video reproduction, or live performance which depicts actual or simulated specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas shall comply with the following requirements:

(1)

The business shall submit to the town's department of public safety and building and code compliance department a professionally prepared blueprint or diagram of the premises showing the location of one or more manager's stations, the location of all overhead lighting fixtures, and that part of the premises where patrons are not permitted. Each blueprint or diagram must be drawn to a designated scale with an accuracy of plus or minus six inches.

(2)

No alteration of the interior of the premises may be made without submitting a new blueprint or diagram in compliance with subsection (1) above to the department of public safety and building and code compliance department.

(3)

The business shall have at least one employee situated in each manager's station at all times that a patron is present inside the premises.

(4)

Each manager's station shall have an unobstructed view of every area of the premises to which a patron is permitted access for any purpose including, but not limited to, any viewing area, booth, or cubicle, excluding restrooms. Restrooms may not contain video reproduction equipment or be used for live performances. The view required by this subsection shall be by direct line of sight from the manager's station.

(5)

No viewing area, booth or cubicle may be fully enclosed, and the walls around any such viewing area, booth or cubicle must have a doorway, entrance, or other opening of at least one-quarter of the size of the perimeter or circumference of the walls.

(6)

No viewing area, booth or cubicle may be occupied by more than one person at any time.

(7)

The operator of the business and any agents, managers and employees present on the premises shall ensure that the view specified in subsection (4) above and the opening specified in subsection (5) above remains unobstructed by any doors, walls, curtains, merchandise, display racks or other materials at all times and that no patron is permitted access to any part of the premises which has been designated as an area in which patrons are not permitted.

(8)

The premises shall be equipped with overhead lighting fixtures of an intensity measured at floor level of at least 70 foot-candles to illuminate every place to which patrons are permitted access. Such lighting fixtures shall be maintained, and shall illuminate the premises during all business hours.

(Ord. No. 1621, § I, 2-1-05)