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The following standards of conduct must be adhered to by employees and entertainers of any adult cabaret. Further, each owner, operator, or manager is specifically required to ensure compliance with following requirements by all persons within the adult cabarets over which that owner, operator, or manager is responsible:

(a) No employee or entertainer shall be unclothed or in such attire, costume or clothing so as to expose to view any portion of the breast below the top of the areola, or any portion of the pubic hair, anus, buttocks, vulva and/or genitals, except upon a stage at least eighteen inches above the immediate floor level and removed at least six feet from the nearest member of the public.

(b) No employee or entertainer shall wear or use any device or covering exposed to view which simulates the breast below the top of the areola, vulva or genitals, anus, and/or buttocks, or any portion of the pubic hair, except upon a stage at least eighteen inches above the immediate floor level and removed at least six feet from the nearest member of the public.

(c) No employee or entertainer shall touch, fondle or caress any member of the public or any other person for the purpose of arousing or exciting the member of the public's or other person's sexual desires or touch, fondle or caress any member of the public or other person where such conduct has the effect of arousing or exciting the member of the public's or other person's sexual desires.

(d) No employee or entertainer shall allow nor shall any member of the public or other person touch, fondle or caress an employee or entertainer for the purpose of arousing or exciting the sexual desires of either party or touch, fondle or caress an employee or entertainer where such conduct has the effect of arousing or exciting the sexual desires of either party.

(e) The owner, operator, manager, employee or any other person in the adult cabaret's premises shall not operate or maintain any kind of warning device, or employ any other method whatsoever, for the purpose of warning employees, entertainers, members of the public, or anyone else within the adult cabaret that police officers or other city inspectors are approaching or have entered the adult cabaret.

(f) At least two licensed managers shall be on the premises of an adult cabaret at all times that the adult cabaret is open to the public and shall be clearly identified at all times by means of a nameplate no less than ¾ inch high and three inches long which reads "ON DUTY MANAGER." Such nameplate shall be conspicuously affixed to the managers' clothing and clearly visible at all times. The names and licenses of the managers on duty shall be prominently posted and illuminated in an area open to the public during such managers' shifts. The managers shall be responsible for verifying that any person who provides entertainment within the premises possesses a current and valid entertainer's license and that such persons comply with the provisions of this chapter. At least one licensed manager shall have, at all times, a clear, continuous, and unobstructed view of all stages on which adult entertainment is permitted to occur. Managers must ensure that the standards of conduct set forth in this section are complied with during all times that the adult cabaret is open to the public.

(g) Any owner, operator, manager, entertainer, or employee violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor as provided for in Section 6.64.160. In addition, because owners, operators, and managers are responsible for ensuring compliance with the provisions of this section within the adult cabaret, the adult cabaret license shall be subject to suspension or revocation based upon any violation of these provisions regardless of whether the city can pursue criminal prosecution or other legal remedies against an individual entertainer or individual manager for violations of this chapter and the city need not first pursue the individuals before seeking adult cabaret license suspension or revocation for violations. (Ord. 1645, § 2, 2005; Ord. 1190,, 1994.)