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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0470 - Adult Entertainment Business License 762 §6 1170 1586 1490 y,_ ”1", /006 CiTY OF T WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO. /ID I AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA LEVYING AND FIXING A LICENSE FEE ON ALL PERSONS CONDUCTING OR ENGAGING IN THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING ENTER TAINMENT OR AMUSEMENT IN ANY HOTEL, RESTAURANT, CAFE, TAVERN OR OTHER PLACE OF PUBLIC RESORT; PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT AND COLLECTION OF SUCH LICENSE FEE;AND PRESCRIBING PENALITIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINACE. The City Council of the City of Tukwila do ordain as follows: SECTION 1: A. Definitions. When used in this Ordinance and unless otherwise distinctly expressed, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning set out herein: a. "Cabaret" means the area in any hotel, restuarant, cafe, lunchroom, tavern, or any other place of public resort open for service to the public or operated for gain or profit where food and /or refreshments are regularly served and where theatrical performances, exhibitions, shows, exhibition dances, dancing, vaudeville persons present are maintained or permitted, or where music, other than vocal produced by persons present, is maintained or permitted, or any combination of the aforesaid acts. b. "Persons" Shall include an individual firm, corporation, company, partnership, association, an unincorporated association and any person acting in a fiduciary capacity. B. Exclusions. This Ordinance shall not apply to any person conducting or engaging in a business providing entertainment or amusement where any admission or similar charges therefor are to be used exclusively for charitable, eleemosynary, educational or religious purposes. SECTION 11: It shall be unlawful to conduct, open up, manage or operate or maintain any cabaret" as hereinabove defined within the City of Tukwila without a valid and subsisting license to do so to be known as the "cabaret license the annual license fee therefor shall be the sum of $300.00 the license fee for a period of less than a year shall be at the rate of $75.00 for Each quarterly period; each such license shall be non assignable, non- transferable and the fee paid shall be non- refundable. SECTTON 111. An applicant for such cabaret license shall make application therefor on forms provided by the City Clerk, to the office of the City Clerk, who shall thereupon submit such application to the License Committee Chairman and Chief of Police for proper investigation, including the location and size of the premises to be so licensed and the personal background of the applicant, and that all information submitted by said applicant in his application are true and correct. No cabaret license shall be granted to any person when such place of business is located wthin 500 feet of and playground or park, or any elementary or high school or the grounds thereof. After such investigation by the License Committee Chairman and Chief of Police, and upon their recommendation to grant such a license, the City Clerk shall issue same_to thE: applicant. All license fees shall be paid to the City Clerk at the time any application is submitted. SECTION 1V: Each application for a "cabaret license" or for a renewal or transfer made by or on behalf of a corporation, association or partnership, shall include a list of the names End address of all directors, officers and shareholders of said corporation, or the name and address of all partners and assoc_ates, as the case may be, and if at any time changes of said personnel occur, said list shall forthwith be amended by notice in writing filed with the City Clerk, and failure to comply with this section shall be an additional ground for suspension or revocation of any such license. SECTTON V: It shall be unlawful for the owner, proprietor or person in charge of a cabaret, when intoxicating beverages are sold to employ as an entertainer or -2- servant in such place any person who is not at least twenty -one (21) years of age and of good moral character. It shall also be unlawful for the owner; proprietor or person in char"e of a cabaret where intoxicating beverages or liquor are sold to allow any person who is not at least twenty -one (21) years of age within the premises. SECTION V1: It shall be unlawful to give, or permit the giving of, in any cabaret, any entertainment or exhibition of a lewd, suggestive, vulgar or immoral type nature, or to use therein any indecent, vulgar or obscene language; no female person shall frequent or loiter within any such establishment with a pur- pose of soliciting male persons to purchase drinks, and no proprietor or operator of any such establishment shall allow the presence in such establishment of any female person who violates the provisions of this section. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, or his duly authorized representative to regularly inspect and police all such premises licensed hereunder to assure compliance with all rules and regulations of the City of Tukwila, including the provisions of this ordinance. In the event that the Chief of Police, or his duly authorized representative, deterline, after due investigation, that a violation has occurred, then he may cancel, revoke or suspend any license issued hereunder; any such suspension, however, shall not exceed a period of thirty (30) days, and all such actions and notices shall be in writing. The holder of any such cabaret license may, after su ^h suspension, revocation, or cancellation, appeal the decision of the Chief of Police, or his duly authorized representative u:ito the City Council by filing written notice thereof with the City Clerk of the City within seven (7) days after such action. There- after, the Council shall, within thirty (30) days after such notice or appeal, fix a date of hearing thereat, which hearing shall be a regular meeting of the City Council. -3- SECTION VII: The Chief of Police or his duly authorized representative shall promptly investigate all complaints against any establishment, operator or manager holding such a cabaret license and shall inspect at least monthly all of such establish- ments so licensed within the City of Tukwila and furnish a report thereof unto the City Council. SECTION VIII: It shall be the duty of each licensee to enforce all standards of decency and good taste and that dis- orderly or objectionable conduct or displays are prohibited; and to take effective and immediate steps to remove all objectionable persons and to stop objectionable practices so that no performance, exhibition, show, exhibition dancing or related activities shall be in any way detrimental to the public peace, health, welfare or morals. SECTION IX: All licenses issued hereunder shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the establishment of the licensee. SECTION X: Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined, upon con- viction therefor, in a sum of not more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or confined to the city jail for not to exceed ninety (90) days, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment; a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which the violation occurs or continues. SECTION.XI: All other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION XII: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval nd legal publication. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THIS ay of 1967. I City Clerk APPROVED BY THE MAYOR THIfS lD day of ;;_.Zz et 1967. 4