§ 28-136 — Access, visibility, lighting, supervision

Sec. 28-136. - Access, visibility, lighting, supervision.

(a) Terms in this section shall be governed by the definitions in section 28-251 of this Code. (b) It shall be unlawful for any owner, operator or manager of any enterprise to permit any employee to provide any entertainment to any customer in any separate area within an enterprise to which entry or access is blocked or obscured by any door, curtain or other barrier, regardless of whether entry to such separate area is by invitation, admission fee, club membership fee or any form of gratuity or consideration. (c) It shall be the duty of any owner, operator or manager of an enterprise to allow immediate access by any police officer, city fire department official or health officer to any portion of the premises of the enterprise upon request for purpose of inspection of such premises for compliance with this article, or any other applicable law. (d) Each enterprise shall be equipped with lighting fixtures of sufficient intensity to illuminate every place to which customers are permitted access at an illumination of not less than one (1.0) footcandle as measured at four feet above floor level. (e) It shall be the duty of any owner, operator or manager of an enterprise to ensure that at least one on-site manager is on duty on the premises at all times during which the enterprise is open for business or during which customers are on the premises. (f) It shall be the duty of any owner, operator or manager of an enterprise to ensure that all persons acting as managers or entertainers on the premises hold and display permits under article VIII of this chapter, and that entertainers comply with section 28-258 of this Code. (g) It shall be the duty of the on-site manager to ensure that no entertainer or manager is allowed or suffered to conduct any business on the premises of an enterprise unless the on-site manager thereof has in his possession or control an on-site card, as referenced in section 28-254(d) of this Code for the manager or entertainer. On-site cards shall be made available for immediate inspection by any police officer, fire department official or health officer. Managers or entertainers working at more than one enterprise may retrieve their on-site cards upon departing the premises in order to present them to a manager at any other enterprise where such persons are employed to hold while the manager or entertainer remains on those premises. (h) It shall be the duty of any owner, operator or manager to maintain a complete list of all persons, including names and addresses, who conduct any business on the premises and are required to obtain a permit under article VIII of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 97-75, § 3, 1-15-97)