Additional regulations for adult motels.
Southaven Code of Ordinances § 8-267
in effectSec. 8-267. - Additional regulations for adult motels.
(a) Evidence that a sleeping room in a hotel, motel, or a similar commercial enterprise has been rented and vacated two or more times in a period of time that is less than ten (10) hours creates a rebuttable presumption that the enterprise is an adult motel as that term is defined in this chapter.
(b) It is unlawful if a person, as the person in control of a sleeping room in a hotel, motel, or similar commercial enterprise that does not have a sexually oriented business license, rents or sub rents a sleeping room to a person and, within ten (10) hours from the time the room is rented, he rents or sub rents the same sleeping room again.
(c) For purposes of subsection (b) of this section, the terms "rent" or "sub-rent" mean the act of permitting a room to be occupied for any form of consideration.
(d) Violation of subsection (b) of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor.
(Ord. of 10-8-00, § 265)
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