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y CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO. 3422
AN ORDI14ANCE OF THE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING PORTIONS OF CHAPTER 31 OF
TITLE V (BUSINESS REGULATIONS) 01' ORDINANCE NO.
1628 ENTITLED "CODE OF GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF RENTON" RELATING TO CABARETS AND CONDUCT
OF EMPLOYEES OR ENTERTAINERS THEREIN
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RENTON,WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I: Existing Section 5-3101 of Title V (Business
Regulations) of Ordinance NO. 1628 entitled "Code of General
Ordinances of the City of Renton" is. hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 5-3101, as amended: DEFINITIONS; EXCLUSIONS:
(A) Definitions. When used in this Chapter and unless
otherwise distinctly expressed, the following words and phrases
shall have the meaning 'set out herein:
(a) "Cabaret" means any hotel, restaurant, cafe, lunch-
room, tavern, or any other place of public resort open for service
to the public or operated for gain or profit and where theatrical
performances, exhibitions, shows, exhibition dances, dancing,
vaudeville shows, or vocal or other music produced by persons
present are maintained or permitted, or where music, other than
vocal produced by persons present, is maintained or permitted, or
any combination of the aforesaid acts; provided, however, where
music is produced by a single person playing A piano or similar
musical instrument, then in .any such case the license fee herein-
after set forth in Section 5-3102 (a) relating to "cabarets"
shall not be applicable but the license fee therefore shall be
in the amount set forth in Section 5-3102 (b) .
(b) "Person" shall include an individual, firm, corporation,
company, partnership, association, an unincorporated association
and any person acting in a fiduciary capacity.
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(B) . Exclusions. Those portions of this Chapter
relating to licensing and/or fees shall not apply to any person
conducting or engaging in a business providing entertainment or
amusement where any admission or similar charges therefore are to
be used exclusively for charitable, eleemosynary, educational or
religious purposes.
SECTION II: Existing subsection (C) of Section 5-3105
of Title V (Business Regulations) of Ordinance No. 1628 entitled
"Code of General Ordinances of the City of Renton" is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 5-1305 (C) as amended: It shall be unlawful
for any person owning, managing, operating, conducting or
maintaining a cabaret to knowingly permit or cause any employee,
servant, agent, independent contractor-entertainer or entertainer
to appear therein with one or both breasts and/or the lower
portion of the torso, wholly or substantially exposed to public
view, and it shall be unlawful for any such employee, servant, or
entertainer to be present, work or loiter in such establishment
at any time, or to appear therein in a substantially exposed manner
as hereinabove defined. The provisions contained herein shall apply
to any such person whether or not a bona fide employer-employee
relationship exists or whether such person acts as an independent
contractor.
SECTION III: Existing; Section 5-1305 of Title V (Business
Regulations) or Ordinance No. 1628 entitled "Code of General
Ordinances of the City of Renton" is amended by adding an
additional subsection to read as follows:
Section 5-1305 (D) Washington Administrative Code
Section 314-16-125, of which not legs than three copies have
heretofore been filed in the office of the City Clerk and made
available to the general public for examination, are hereby
adopted by reference for the City of Renton, and any and all
amendments, additions or modifications thereto, when printed
and filed with the City Clerk by authorization of the City Council
from time to time shall be considered and accepted and constitute
a part of this Code without the necessity of further legislation
and are incorporated.herein. Such Washington Administrative Code
Section shall apply to all cabarets as defined herein whether or
not they are licensed premises.
SECTION IV Existing section 5-3107 of Title V (Business
Regulations) of Ordinance No. 1628 entitled "Code of General
Ordinances of the City of Renton" is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 5-3107, as amended: AGE RESTRICTIONS: It shall
be unlawful for the owner, proprietor, or manager in .charge of any
such cabaret, or for any employee at said place, to harbor, admit,
receive or permit to be or remain in or about such cabaret, any
minor person under the age of eighteen (18) years, or for any
person under the age of eighteen (18) years to be in or about any
cabaret after being notified by the management or a peace officer
to leave the premises, or to make any misrepresentation as to
his own age or that of any other person, for the purpose of
obtaining admission to any cabaret or to remain therein. The fore-
going shall not apply if such minor is accompanied by his parents
or parent or his legal guardian while within said premises.
It shall be unlawful for the owner, proprietor or person
in charge of a cabaret to employ as an entertainer or servant in
such place any person who is not at least eighteen (18) years
of age and of good .moral character.
SECTION V Existing Section 5-3109 of Title V (Business
Regulations) of Ordinance No. 1628 entitled "Code of General
Ordinances of the City of Renton" is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 5-3109, as amended: MORAL REQUIREMENTS; LICENSE
REVOCATION; APPEAL: It shall be unlawful to give or permit the
giving of, in any cabaret, any entertainment or exhibition of a
lewd, suggestive, vulgar or immoral type or nature, or to use
therein any indecent, vulgar or obscene language; no person
shall frequent or loiter within any such establishment with a
purpose of soliciting persons to purchase drinks, and no proprietor
or operator of any such establishment shall allow the presence in
such establishment of any person who violates the provisions of
this Section. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, or
his duly authorized representative, to regularly inspect and police
all such premises licensed hereunder to assure compliance with all
rules and regulations of the City of Menton, including the provisions
of this Chapter. In the event that the Chief of Police, or his
duly authorized representative determines, after due investigation,
that a violation has occurred, then he may cancel, revoke or
suspend any license issued hereunder; any such suspension, however,
shall not exceed a period of thirty (30) days, and all such actions
and notices shall be in writing.
The holder of any such cabaret license may, after such
suspension, revocation, or cancellation, appeal the decision of
the Chief of Police, or his duly authorized representative, unto
the City Council by filing written notice thereof with the City .
Clerk of the City within seven (7) days after such action.
Thereafter the Council shall within fifteen (15) days after such
notice of appeal, fix a date of hearing thereat, which hearing
shall be a regular meeting of the City Council.
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SECTION VI: This Ordinance shall be effective upon
its passage, approval and five days after its publication.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 28th day of April, 1950
Maxine E. Motor, Deputy City Clerk
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this 28th day of April, 1980.
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Barbara Shinp ch
Approved as to form;
Lawrence J. War.ten, City Attorney
Date of Publication: May 7, 1980