§ 8-4-1 Definitions.
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY CLERK. The City Clerk of the City of Goodyear or his or her designee.
CONSIDERATION. Money or other items of monetary value.
ESCORT. Any person who for monetary consideration in the form of a fee, commission or salary is held out to the public as available for hire, to consort with or to accompany another or others to social affairs, places of amusement or entertainment within any place of public resort or within any private quarters.
ESCORT BUREAU. Any person who for a fee, commission, profit, payment or other monetary consideration, furnishes, refers or offers to furnish or refer escorts or provides or offers to introduce patrons to escorts.
ESCORT BUREAU RUNNER. Any person, not an escort, who for a salary, fee, hire, reward or profit, as the agent for either an escort bureau or a patron, contacts or meets with escort patrons or escort bureaus at any location other than the established open office, as defined hereunder, whether that person is self employed or is employed by the escort bureau or any business.
LICENSEE. A person who is the holder of a valid license under this article. A LICENSEE includes an agent, servant, employee or other person while acting on behalf of that licensee, whether such a licensee is or would be prohibited from performing an act or acts under this article.
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. The office of a 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 that the office be accessible to business invitees, business license officials and law enforcement officers through a security system during all other hours that escorts are working;
(2) The office be managed by the owner or a management employee of the owner having authority to bind the bureau to escort and patron contracts 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) An index of all employees and escorts be kept in the open office;
(5) All business records be kept in the open office, including records of escort calls and referrals, stating the name and address, including the hotel or motel room of the patron, the date and time of referral, name of escort sent and whether the referral resulted in an escort service and the total fee received from the patron, if any.
PERSON. Any individual or any firm, partnership, corporation or association of any kind.
PERSON FINANCIALLY INTERESTED. For a corporation, any person who is an officer or director or shareholder holding more than 5% of the shares thereof; for a noncorporate business, any person who shares in any financial gain attributable to the business as a proprietor or owner on the basis of a percentage in excess of 5% of the gross or 10% of the net revenue.
SERVICE ORIENTED ESCORT. An escort who:
(1) Operates from an open office;
(2) Does not employ or use an escort bureau runner;
(3) Does not advertise that sexual conduct will be provided or work for an escort bureau that so advertises; and
(4) Does not offer, solicit, agree to provide or provide sexual conduct.
SERVICE ORIENTED ESCORT BUREAU. An escort bureau which:
(1) Maintains an open office at an established place of business;
(2) Does not use an escort bureau runner;
(3) Does not advertise, offer, solicit, agree to or provide sexual conduct to a patron; and
(4) Provides only escorts who possess escort identification cards.
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 or female breast of a person for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of the person being touched or that of another person.
SEXUALLY ORIENTED ESCORT. An escort who:
(1) Employs an escort bureau runner as an employee, agent or independent contractor;
(2) Works for, has an agent, employee or independent contractor or was referred to a patron by a sexually oriented escort bureau;
(3) Advertises that sexual conduct will be provided, or works for as an agent, employee or independent contractor, or was referred to a patron by an escort bureau which so advertises;
(4) Solicits, offers, agrees to provide or does provide acts of sexual conduct to an escort patron; or
(5) 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:
(1) Engages in advertising to make the prospective patron believe that acts of sexual conduct or sexual stimulation will be provided;
(2) Uses, as escorts, persons known to have violated the laws regarding prostitution;
(3) Does not maintain an open office;
(4) Employs as an employee, agent or independent contractor, or uses, an escort bureau runner;
(5) Advertises that sexual conduct will be provided or that escorts which provide such sexual conduct will be provided, referred or introduced to a patron;
(6) Solicits, offers or agrees to provide, or does provide acts of sexual conduct to a patron;
(7) Employs, contracts with or provides or refers escorts who do not possess escort identification cards as required herein;
(8) Does not deliver contracts to every patron or customer; or
(9) Employs, contracts with or refers or provides to a patron a sexually oriented escort.
SEXUAL STIMULATION. To excite or arouse a prurient interest or to offer or solicit acts of sexual conduct as defined herein. (Prior Code, § 8-4-1) (Am. Ord. 12-1273, passed 12-10-2012)