§ 21.2-80. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Escort patron: A customer or any person who contracts with, employs or for consideration hires an escort bureau, escort runner or escort for purposes of hiring an escort.

Offer to provide acts of sexual conduct: To offer to provide sexual conduct to a patron, including any conversations, advertisements and acts which would lead a reasonably prudent person to conclude that such acts were to be provided.

Open office: An office at the licensed escort bureau address from which escort business is transacted; to qualify as an open office it is required that:

(a)

Business hours be established and posted and that the office be open to the public, patrons or prospective patrons during such business hours and, if different from the posted hours, during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on all days that escort services are being provided;

(b)

Each manager has the authority to bind the bureau to escort and patron contracts and resolve patron and consumer complaints;

(c)

All telephone lines and numbers listed to the escort bureau or advertised as escort bureau numbers terminate at the open office and at no other location; and

(d)

All business records be kept in the open office including records of escort calls and referrals, stating the name and address, including hotel or motel room, of the patron, the date and time of referral, name of escort sent, whether the referral resulted in an escort service and the total fee received from the patron.

Service-oriented escort: Any escort who:

(a)

Operates from an open office; and

(b)

Does not employ or use any escort runner; and

(c)

Does not advertise that sexual conduct will be provided or work for an escort bureau which so advertises; and

(d)

Does not offer, agree to provide, or provide sexual conduct.

Service-oriented escort bureau: Any escort bureau which:

(a)

Maintains an open office at an established place of business; and

(b)

Does not employ or use any escort runner; and

(c)

Does not advertise, offer, agree to provide, or provide sexual conduct to a patron; and

(d)

Employs only licensed escorts.

Sexual conduct: Engaging in the commission of an act of sexual intercourse, oral-genital contact or the touching of the sexual organs, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female breast of a person for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of another person.

Sexually oriented escort: Any escort who:

(a)

Employs any escort runner; or

(b)

Is employed by or is referred to a patron by a sexually oriented escort bureau; or

(c)

Advertises that sexual conduct will be provided, or is employed by or is referred to a patron by an escort bureau which so advertises; or

(d)

Solicits, offers, agrees to provide, or provides acts of sexual conduct to an escort patron; or

(e)

Accepts an offer to provide acts of sexual conduct for any consideration in addition to the consideration charged by the escort bureau.

Sexually oriented escort bureau: Any escort bureau which:

(a)

Engages in advertising to make the prospective patron believe that acts of sexual conduct will be provided; or

(b)

Uses as escorts persons known to have violated the law regarding prostitution within the last five (5) years; or

(c)

Does not maintain an open office; or

(d)

Employs or uses any escort runner; or

(e)

Offers, agrees to provide, or provides acts of sexual conduct to a patron; or

(f)

Employs or refers unlicensed escorts; or

(g)

Does not deliver contracts to every patron; or

(h)

Employs, refers or provides to a patron a sexually oriented escort.

(Ord. No. 2076, § 1, 5-11-99)