5.45.180 Unlawful practices—Licenses.

(1)    No person or commercial establishment shall:

(a)    Engage in or conduct any business as an adult entertainment enterprise without first acquiring an adult entertainment license in accordance with this chapter;

(b)    Forge, alter or counterfeit, or possess a forged, altered, counterfeit or expired adult entertainment license as defined by this chapter.

(2)    No adult entertainment enterprise shall:

(a)    Engage in or conduct any business except as classified in or where authorized by a current and valid adult entertainment license;

(b)    Fail to comply with or maintain compliance with any express terms or conditions of an adult entertainment license issued pursuant to this chapter or with any of the interior or exterior requirements set forth in this chapter;

(c)    Fail to report a change in operators or owners or to conduct any business after such change without filing an application for transfer as required by this chapter;

(d)    Fail to post any current and valid adult entertainment license as required by this chapter;

(e)    Fail to surrender any adult entertainment license within thirty (30) days of the cessation of business, transfer, expiration, suspension or revocation thereof. (Sec. 7 of Ord. 1990-08-03)