§ 898-1-O-1. Open Office.

"Open Office" shall mean an office at the licensed escort service address from which escort business is transacted; to qualify as an open office it is required that:

(a)

Business hours be established and posted and that the office is open to the public and patrons or prospective patrons during such business hours and that the office is accessible to business invitees, business license officials and law enforcement officers during hours that escorts are working;

(b)

The office be managed by the owner or a management employee of the owner having authority to bind the escort service to escort and patron contracts and to adjust patron and consumer complaints;

(c)

All telephone lines and numbers listed to the escort service, or advertised as escort service numbers, terminate at the open office and at no other location;

(d)

An index of all employees and escorts is kept in the open office;

(e)

All business records be kept in the open office including records of escort calls and referrals, stating the name and address, including hotel or motel room, of the patron, the date and time of referral, name of the escort sent and whether the referral resulted in an escort service and the total fee received from the patron, if any.

(Ordained by Ord. No. 233-1996, eff. Sept. 6, 1996)