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DIVISION 5. ESCORT BUREAUS

Sec. 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 differerent meaning:

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

OFFER TO PROVIDE ACTS OF SEXUAL CONDUCT - To offer, propose or solicit to provide sexual conduct to a patron. Such definitions include all 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:
(1) Business hours be established and posted and that the office be open to the public and patrons or prospective patrons during such business hours and, if different from posted hours, during the hours of 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on all days that escort services are being provided;
(2) Each manager has the authority to bind the bureau to escort and patron contacts and adjust patron and consumer complaints;
(3) 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.
(4) All business records be kept in the open office including records of escort calls and referrals, stating the name and address, including all hotel or motel room, of the patron, the date and time of the referral, name of escort sent and whether the referral resulted in an escort service and the toal fee received from the patron, if any.

SERVICE ORIENTED ESCORT - An escort who:
(A) Operates from an open office; and
(B) Does not employ or use an escort bureau 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, solicit, agree to provide, or provide sexual conduct.

SERVICE ORIENTED ESCORT BUREAU - An escort bureau which:
(A) Maintains an open office at an established place of business; and
(B) Does not use an escort bureau runner; and
(C) Does not advertise, offer, solicit, agree to, or provide sexual conduct to a patron; and
(D) Employs only licensed escorts.

SEXUAL CONDUCT - Engaging in or 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 sexual desire of another person.

SEXUALLY ORIENTED ESCORT - An escort who:
(A) Employs an escort bureau runner as an employee, agent or independent contractor; 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 does provide acts or sexual conduct to an escort patron; or
(E) Accepts an offer or solicitation to provide acts of sexual conduct for a fee in addition to the fee charged by the escort bureau.

SEXUALLY ORIENTED ESCORT BUREAU - An escort bureau which:
(A) Engages in advertising to make the prospective patron believe that acts of sexual conduct or sexual stimulation will be provided; or
(B) Uses as escorts persons known to have violated the law regarding prostitution.
(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 customer; or
(H) Employs, refers or provides to a patron, a sexually oriented escort.

SEC. 21.2-81. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS AND AGENCIES

(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, the following persons are exempt from licensing pursuant this chapter:

1. Any organization which is qualified for exemption from taxation of income under Arizona Revised Statutes, Sections 43-1201 (1), (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (10) or (11) as amended;
2. Any profession, occupation and business which is licensed by the State of Arizona or any political subdivision thereof pursuant to a specific statute or ordinance, which performs an escort bureau function as a service incidental to the primary function of such business and which does not hold itself out to the public as an escort bureau; and
3. Any employee of any such business who performs escort functions as a service incidental to the primary function of such business and who does not hold himself or herself out to the public as an escort.

SEC. 21.2-82. ESCORT RUNNERS AND SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUREAUS PROHIBITED

(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, manage or be employed by a sexually oriented escort bureau within the city, regardless of any license which such person may hold, including any escort bureau's or escort's licenses issued under this chapter.

(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to act as an escort runner within the city.

SEC. 21.2-83. MANAGER'S DUTY TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE BY ESCORTS.

(A) An escort bureau manager shall not allow any employee to work as an escort until such escort has displayed to the manager a valid escort's license and identification card. The manager shall require that all persons employed as escorts during which such escorts work for the escort bureau. On or before January 31 of each year, the manager shall verify with each escort that such licensee has renewed his or her license and identification card.

(B) The provisions of this section shall not apply, for a period of 120 days after the effective date of this ordinance, to persons who were employed as escort bureau managers or escorts within the city prior to such effective date.

SEC. 21.2-84. ESCORT BUREAU DUTIES; LOCAL OPEN OFFICE REQUIRED.

(A) An escort bureau manager shall provide to each patron a written contract and receipt of payment for services. The contract shall clearly state the type of services to be performed, the length of time such services shall be performed, the total amount of money such services shall cost the patron, and any special terms or conditions relating to the services to be performed.

(B) The escort bureau shall operate only from an open office location within Maricopa County. The street address of that office shall be included in all patron contracts. The escort bureau operator or manager shall not provide private rooms or booth where the patron may meet with the escort at the open office or at any other location.

(C) The escort bureau operator and manager, in terms of licensing consequences, are responsible for the acts of all their employees, including managers, telephone receptionists, and escorts who are referred by such bureau while the escort is with the patron.

(D) The escort bureau operator and manager shall maintain at the open office at all times an index of all escorts employed by such business during the last two years. Such index shall be made available for inspection, upon demand, to any law enforcement officer or any city official whose duties are related to licensing. The escort bureau may require such officer or official to complete an inspection log with name, serial or badge number, title, time, date and purpose for the inspection.

SEC. 21.2-85. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any of the following activities in the city:

(A) Acting as an escort, furnishing or offering to furnish escorts, or conducting business as an escort bureau or escort under any name not listed in such person's license.

(B) Operating as an escort bureau on the same premises at which is located a cocktail lounge, bar, liquor store, telephone answering machine, adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult theater, nude modeling studio, semi-nude business or topless bar, or soliciting business as an escort while on such premises.

(C) Providing an escort to an individual under 18 years of age unless the escort bureau or escort first obtains express written authorization for the provision of such services from such minor's parent or legal guardian.

(D) Publishing, disseminating or displaying, directly or indirectly, by hire, contract or otherwise, in or on any newspaper, magazine, publication, radio, television, telephone or other advertising media any oral or written statement, photograph, picture, drawing, sketch or pictorial representation which would suggest to a reasonable and prurient person that sexual conduct or nudity is offered or provided by an escort or escort bureau.

(E) Providing or offering to provide sexual conduct, nudity or semi-nudity as a part of the business of an escort bureau or escort.

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