Owners or operators of establishments that have a cereal malt beverage license shall register all entertainers performing for compensation in those establishments with the police department and a license fee shall be charged as set out in Chapter 17. Each license issued shall expire on December 31st of each year, regardless of when license was issued.

(Code 1984, Code 2004)

It shall be unlawful for any entertainer or performer licensed hereunder employed in any room, place or space in the city in which any musical entertainment, singing or dancing, or discotheque dancing, or similar entertainment is permitted and which is required to be licensed under Article 1 of this chapter and in which cereal malt beverages are sold to sit at or occupy any table or counter when any patron or spectator of said establishment is also sitting or occupying said table or counter.

(Code 1971, Sec. 3-204)

No entertainer or performer licensed hereunder employed in any establishment licensed under Article 1 of this chapter, shall mix socially therein with any patron or spectator for any purpose. Normal duties as a waitress or other regular employee shall not constitute mixing socially.

(Code 1971, Sec. 3-205)

It shall be unlawful to permit any entertainer or performer licensed hereunder to sit at or occupy any table or counter of the establishment wherein they are employed, when the same is occupied by any patron or spectator, or to mix socially therein with any patron or spectator for any purpose.

(Code 1971, Sec. 3-206)

It shall be unlawful for any entertainer or performer licensed hereunder to perform any manner of obscene, lewd, lustful, lascivious, prurient or sexually indecent dance and it shall be unlawful to allow any such performance. It shall be prima facie evidence of violation of this section to wear any costume or other clothing which does not cover or which is transparent or does not conceal the reproductive or sexual organs, the buttocks, or the female breasts.

(Code 1971, Sec. 3-207)

No person who within two (2) years preceding the date of making application has been convicted of any felony or of any crime involving a morals charge or the violation of any intoxicating liquor law of the city, state of Kansas or United States shall be issued an entertainer registration and any such entertainer registration required herein may be revoked permanently by the governing body upon hearing at any regular meeting of the governing body, and may be suspended immediately for not to exceed thirty (30) days by the chief of police for any of the following reasons:

(a)   If the registrant has fraudulently obtained the entertainer registration by giving false information therefor;

(b)   Drunkenness of the registrant;

(c)   Violation of any provisions of city ordinances or state statutes pertaining to the sale of intoxicating liquor or beverages;

(d)   The conviction of any felony or of any crime involving a morals charge or the violation of any intoxicating liquor law of the city, state or United States.

For the purposes of this section “morals charge” shall include those charges involving prostitution, pimping, indecent exposure, lewd and lascivious conduct, illegal use, possession or sale of narcotics, marijuana, amphetamines, barbiturates, or other controlled substance or gambling.

(Code 1971, Sec. 3-208; Code 1984; Code 2003)

Any person, corporation, firm, company, association or other entity violating any provisions of this article shall be guilty of a violation of this code and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Code 1971, Sec. 3-209)