§ 18-101. Additional regulations concerning public nudity

The following regulations are additional and supplemental to, and not in derogation or modification of, any other provisions of this Code regulating public nudity, including but not limited to the Hernando County Public Nudity Ordinance.

(1)

It shall be a misdemeanor for a person who, with knowledge and intent, appears in person in a nude or semi-nude condition in a sexually oriented business, unless the person is an employee who, while semi-nude, is at least ten (10) feet from any patron or customer, on a stage at least two (2) feet from the floor, and is not in violation of any other ordinances regulating public nudity.

(2)

It shall be a misdemeanor for an employee, while nude or semi-nude in a sexually oriented business, to solicit any pay or gratuity from any patron or customer, or for any patron or customer to pay or give any gratuity to any employee, while said employee is nude or semi-nude in the sexually oriented business.

(3)

It shall be a misdemeanor for an employee, while nude or semi-nude, to touch a patron or the clothing of a patron, or for a patron to touch a nude or semi-nude employee or the clothing of a nude or semi-nude employee.

(4)

Nothing herein shall operate to preclude any other lawful remedy for enforcement of this article as provided in section 18-108 hereof.

(Ord. No. 2003-14, § 16, 7-8-03)