§ 21.2-131. Topless bar performers; prohibited activities.  


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  • (a)

    It is unlawful on the licensed premises for a topless bar performer, while performing in the general patron area or upon any stage or in any other location used for performing by such performer, to recklessly or knowingly:

    (1)

    Use his or her hands, or any other part of his or her body, to make contact with the breasts, buttocks, anus or genitals of any other person.

    (2)

    Permit his or her breasts, buttocks, anus or genitals to make contact with any other person.

    (3)

    Perform an act which constitutes or simulates sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation or any sexual acts which are prohibited by law.

    (4)

    Display any portion of the areola of the female breast, or any portion of his or her pubic hair, anus, vulva or genitals.

    (5)

    Permit a patron to place any money on his or her person or on his or her costume, provided that incidental hand-to-hand contact occurring during the act of tipping shall not be unlawful.

    (b)

    It is unlawful on the licensed premises for a topless bar performer to perform anywhere other than in the general patron area or in any other location which is entirely visible by direct line of sight from the general patron area.

    (c)

    It is unlawful for any person to work as a topless bar performer unless such person is at least nineteen (19) years old, regardless of whether such person has been issued a performer's/model's license by the city. The topless bar manager shall require all persons to be employed as topless bar performers to display to the manager valid proof of age, in the form of a document specified in section 21.2-26(d), before allowing such persons to work as topless bar performers.

(Ord. No. 2076, § 1, 5-11-99)