Legal Documents of Rocky Top

Code of Rocky Top

Rocky Top
Title 9 : Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 4 : Adult-Oriented Establishments

9-402 : License required.

  1. Except as provided in subsection (5) below, from and after the effective date of this chapter, no adult-oriented establishment shall be operated or maintained in the City of Rocky Top without first obtaining a license to operate issued by the City of Rocky Top.
  2. A license may be issued only for one (1) adult-oriented establishment located at a fixed and certain place. Any person, partnership, or corporation which desires to operate more than one (1) adult-oriented establishment must have a license for them.
  3. No license or interest in a license may be transferred to any person, partnership, or corporation.
  4. It shall be unlawful or any entertainer, employee or operator to knowingly work in or about, or to knowingly perform any service directly related to the operation of any unlicenced adult-oriented establishment.
  5. All existing adult-oriented establishments at the time of the passage of this chapter must submit an application for a license within one hundred twenty (120) days of the passage of this chapter on second and final reading. If a license is not issued within said one hundred twenty (120) day period, then such existing adult-oriented establishment shall cease operations.
  6. No license may be issued for any location unless the premises are lawfully zoned for adult-oriented establishments and unless all requirements of the zoning ordinance are complied with.(1996 Code, § 9-602)