5.120.030 License fees—Term—Assignment—Renewals.
No public place of adult entertainment shall be operated or maintained in the city, unless the owner or lessee thereof has obtained a license from the city clerk as hereinafter set forth; provided, that it is unlawful for any entertainer, employee or operator to knowingly work in or about, or to knowingly perform any service directly related to the operation of an unlicensed public place of adult entertainment.
A. The license year shall be from January 1st to December 31st of each year. All licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December each year. Except as hereinafter provided, all license fees shall be payable on an annual basis and shall not be refundable. Annual license fees shall be three hundred fifty dollars per year for a public place of adult entertainment license.
B. License fees shall not be prorated, except that if the original application for license is made subsequent to June 30th in any year, the license fee for the remainder of that year shall be one-half of the annual license fee. Licenses issued under this chapter may not be assigned or transferred.
C. Applications for renewal of licenses issued under this chapter shall be filed with the clerk on or before the expiration date provided for in this section in the same manner as the original application providing the clerk with current information and accompanied by payment of the same fees as are in effect for an original application for that license for the license year applied for. (Ord. 1372-87 § 1, 1987; Ord. 1240-86 § 1, 1986; Ord. 1196-85 § 1(C), 1985.)