Chapter 125: Sexually Oriented Businesses

§ 125.14 Additional Regulations For Adult Motels

The text in force today, and every version since 2010.

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125.14 ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS FOR ADULT MOTELS

1. Evidence that a sleeping room in a hotel, motel, or a similar commercial establishment has been rented and vacated two or more times in a period of time that is less than ten (10) hours creates a rebuttable presumption that the establishment is an adult motel as that term is defined in this chapter.

2. It is unlawful if a person, as the person in control of a sleeping room in a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment that does not have a sexually oriented business permit, rents or sub-rents a sleeping room to a person and, within ten (10) hours from the time the room is rented, rents or sub-rents the same sleeping room again. For purposes of subsection 2 of this section, the term “rent” or “sub-rent” means the act of permitting a room to be occupied for any form of consideration.

2010 Code (city website file), in force from August 11, 2010 · source page

Confirmed by the city's current text: the 2026 draft recodification (August 2026, not adopted) has the same words (§ 125.14, p. 269), apart from citations and number style.

In the 2026 draft (a comparison with a draft, not adopted): § 125.14 — wording changed, citations or formatting only · compare

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Aug 11, 2010today 2010 Code base text · text p. 10

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