Operation.
Indianapolis-Marion County Revised Code § 911-7
in effectSec. 911-7. - Operation.
(a) No bathhouse, escort service, body painting studio or nude modeling studio shall be operated or conducted in living quarters, and no one shall use such business premises for a place of habitation. No bathhouse, escort service, body painting studio or nude modeling studio shall have a separate entrance or opening to living quarters, and the entrances to such business premises must be separate from the entrances to any places of habitation.
(b) No person employed by any licensee under this chapter or allowed to be within view of any of the services rendered by a bathhouse, escort service, body painting studio or nude modeling studio shall be under the age of twenty-one (21) years.
(c) Each person employed in an establishment licensed under this chapter, except nude models while actually engaged in nude modeling, shall wear clean outer garments with a fully opaque covering of such person's sexual and/or genital areas.
(d) The sexual and/or genital areas of patrons of establishments required to be licensed under this chapter must be covered with towels, clothes or undergarments when in the presence of an employee, escort, body painting model, nude model, or other patron.
(e) No person in any establishment licensed under this chapter, and no escort, shall place his or her hand upon, touch with any part of his or her body, fondle in any manner, or massage a sexual and/or genital area of any other person.
(f) No person employed in an establishment licensed under this chapter shall perform, offer or agree to perform, any act which shall require the touching of the patron's genitals.
(g) Every bathhouse, escort service, body painting studio or nude modeling studio shall be open for inspection during all business hours and at other reasonable times by police officers, health and fire inspectors, and duly authorized representatives of the city upon the showing of proper credentials by such persons.
(h) Any bathhouse, escort service, body painting studio or nude modeling studio, or any combination thereof, is prohibited from installing or maintaining any lock or similar device on the inside of any door of such business which cannot be operated by key or knob from the exterior of such door.
(G.O. 183, 1997, § 11; G.O. 30, 2014, § 7; G.O. 2, 2015, § 6)
Source: Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Revised Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/in/indianapolis_-_marion_county/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIVBUCORELI_CH911MAPABAREEN_S911-7OPFetched: 10/27/2026