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9-4-4. Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words
shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Adult bookstore" or "adult
video store" means a commercial establishment:
(a) which holds itself out to be such a business;
(b) which excludes minors from more than 15 percent of
the retail floor or shelf space of the premises; or
(c) which, as one of its principal purposes, offers for
sale or rental, for any form of consideration, any one or more of the
following: books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter or photographs,
films, motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides
or other visual representations, the central theme of which depicts or
describes specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or
instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designated for use in
connection with specified sexual activities, except for legitimate medically
recognized contraceptives.
(2) "Adult business" means an adult
motion picture theater, adult bookstore or adult video store.
(3) "Adult motion picture theater" means
a commercial establishment which:
(a) holds itself out as such a business;
(b) excludes minors from the showing of 2 consecutive
exhibitions; repeated showing of any single presentation shall not be
considered a consecutive exhibition; or
(c) as its principal business, shows, for any form of
consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar
photographic reproductions which are primarily characterized by the depiction
or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical
areas.
(4) "Adult theater" means a theater,
concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment which:
(a) holds itself out as such a business;
(b) excludes minors from the showing of 2 consecutive
exhibitions; repeated performance of the same presentation shall not be
considered a consecutive exhibition; or
(c) as its principal business, features persons who appear
in live performances in a state of nudity or which are characterized by
the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.
(5) "Business license authority" means
the Tooele County Clerk or designee.
(6) "Employ" means hiring an individual
to work for pecuniary or any other form of compensation, whether such
person is hired on the payroll of the employer, as an independent contractor,
as an agent, or in any other form of employment relationship.
(7) "Escort" means any person who, for
pecuniary compensation, dates, socializes, visits, consorts with or accompanies
or offers to date, consort, socialize, visit or accompany another or others
to or about social affairs, entertainment or places of amusement, or within
any place of public or private resort or any business or commercial establishment
or any private quarters.
(8) "Escort service" means an individual
or entity who, for pecuniary compensation, furnishes or offers to furnish
escorts, or provides or offers to introduce patrons to escorts.
(9) "Escort service runner" means any
third person, not an escort, who, for pecuniary compensation, acts in
the capacity of an agent or broker for an escort service, escort or patron
by contacting or meeting with escort services, escorts or patrons at any
location within the County, whether or not such third person is employed
by such escort service, escort, patron, or by another business, or is
an independent contractor or self-employed.
(10) "Nude and seminude dancing agency"
means any person, agency, firm, corporation, partnership, or any other
entity or individual which furnishes, books or otherwise engages or offers
to furnish, book or otherwise engage the service of a professional dancer
licensed pursuant to this chapter for performance or appearance at a business
licensed for nude entertainment, seminude dancing bars, or adult theaters.
(11) "Nude entertainment business" means
a business, including adult theater, where employees perform or appear
in the presence of patrons of the business in a state of nudity or seminudity.
A business shall also be presumed to be a nude entertainment business
if the business holds itself out to be such a business.
(12) "Nudity" or "state of nudity"
means a state of dress in which the nipple and areola, or any portion
thereof, of the female breast, or male or female genitals, or any portion
thereof, pubic region or anus are covered by less than the covering required
in the definition of seminude.
(13) "Out call services" means services
of a type performed by a sexually oriented business employee outside of
the premises of the licensed sexually oriented business, including but
not limited to escorts, models, dancers and other similar employees.
(14) "Patron" means any person who contracts
with or employs any escort services or escort or the customer of any business
licensed pursuant to this chapter.
(15) "Pecuniary compensation" means
any commission, fee, salary, tip, gratuity, hire, profit, regard, or any
other form of consideration.
(16) "Person" means any person, unincorporated
association, corporation, partnership or other legal entity.
(17) "Seminude" means a state of dress
in which opaque clothing covers no more than the nipple and areola of
the female breast and covers the male or female genitals, the pubic region
and anus shall be fully covered by an opaque covering no narrower than
four inches wide in the front and five inches wide in the back which shall
not taper to less than one inch wide at the narrowest point.
(18) "Seminude dancing bars" means any
business licensed as a private club or tavern, which permits dancing,
modeling, or other performance or appearance however characterized, in
a state of seminudity.
(19) "Sexually oriented business" means
nude entertainment business, sexually oriented Out call services, adult
business, seminude dancing bars and seminude dancing agencies, as defined
by this chapter.
(20) "Sexually oriented business employees"
means those employees who work on the premises of the sexually oriented
business in activities related to the sexually oriented portion of the
business. This includes all managing employees, dancers, escorts, models,
and other similar employees whether or not hired as employees, agents
or as independent contractors. Employees shall not include individuals
whose work is unrelated to the sexually oriented portion of the business,
such as janitors, bookkeepers and similar employees. Sexually oriented
business employees shall not include cooks, serving persons, bartenders
and similar employees, except where they may be managers or supervisors
of the business. All persons making Out call meetings under this chapter,
including escorts, models, guards, escort runners, drivers, chauffeurs
and other similar employees, shall be considered sexually oriented business
employees.
(21) "Specified anatomical areas" means
the human male or female pubic area or anus with less than a full opaque
covering, or the human female breast from the beginning of the areola,
papilla or nipple to the end thereof with less than full opaque covering.
(22) "Specified sexual activities" means:
(a) Acts of:
(i) masturbation;
(ii) human sexual intercourse;
(iii) sexual copulation between a person and a beast;
(iv) fellatio;
(v) cunnilingus;
(vi) bestiality;
(vii) pederasty;
(viii) buggery; or
(ix) any anal intercourse between a human male and another
human male, human female, or beast;
(b) Manipulating, caressing or fondling by any person
of:
(i) the genitals of a human;
(ii) the pubic area of a human;
(iii) the uncovered female nipple or areola;
(c) Flagellation or torture by or upon a person clad
in undergarments, a mask or bizarre costume, or the condition of being
fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of the
one so clothed. (Ord. 95-19, 9/12/95;Ord. 92-5, 9/1/92)
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