Amend Chapter 4, Article 4, Section 18.5 Regarding Adult Business

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4-18.5(1). (m) Interior maintenance. All walls, ceilings, floors, viewing booths, and all physical facilities in each adult business shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Restrooms and viewing booths shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once each day the adult business is in operation. (n) Exterior portions of adult businesses. (1) No merchandise or activities of an adult business licensed hereunder shall be visible from a point outside the establishment. (2) No flashing lights, or any words, lettering, photographs, silhouettes, drawings, or pictorial representations of any manner except to the extent permitted by the provisions of this section shall be permitted or used on the exterior of an adult business licensed hereunder. (3) Exterior portions of any adult business licensed hereunder shall not be painted any color other than a single achromatic color. Provided, however, that one (1) complementary trim color may be used, as approved by the Design Development Director of the City, as defined in Chapter 6. This provision shall not apply to an adult business if the following conditions are met: a. The establishment is a part of a commercial multi-unit center; and b. The exterior portions of each individual unit in the commercial multi-unit center, including the exterior portions of the business, are painted the same color as one another or are painted in such a way so as to be a component of the overall architectural style or pattern of the commercial multi-unit center. (4) Nothing in this article shall be construed to require the painting of an otherwise unpainted exterior portion of an adult business. ~ Contact between entertainers and patrons prohibited. 1. No person shall perform live entertainment for patron(s) of a sexually oriented business establishment except upon a stage at least eighteen (18) inches above the level of the floor which is separated by a distance of at least ten (10) feet from the nearest area occupied by oatron(sl. No patron shall be permitted within ten (10) feet of the stage while the stage is occupied by a performer. 2. No entertainer, either before, during, or after a performance, shall have physical contact with any patron and no patron shall have physical contact with any entertainer either before, during or after a performance. This subsection shall only apply to physical contact while in or on the premises of the establishment. 3. No patron shall directly pay or give any gratuity to any entertainer. A patron who wishes to pay or give a gratuity to a performer shall place the gratuity in a container that is at all times 10