§ 113.01. PROHIBITING NUDE ENTERTAINMENT.


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  • (A) For the purposes of this section, ALCOHOLIC COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT shall mean any hotel, motel, tavern, restaurant, park, nightclub, cocktail lounge, burlesque house, bar, cabaret, taproom or club, licensed by the State of Michigan Liquor Control Commission or where alcoholic beverages, including beer, are dispensed and consumed. This definition shall exclude any theater or auditorium.
    (B) It shall be unlawful for any person to perform in any alcoholic commercial establishment as defined above, or for any person who owns or operates premises constituting an alcoholic commercial establishment to knowingly permit or allow to be performed therein, any of the following acts or conduct:
    (1) The public performance of acts or simulated acts of sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation or any sexual acts which are prohibited by law;
    (2) The actual or simulated touching, caressing or fondling on the breasts, buttocks, anus or genitals in public; or
    (3) The actual or simulated public displaying of the pubic hair, anus, vulva or genitals.
    (C) It shall be unlawful for the owner, operator, agent or employee of an alcoholic commercial establishment to allow any female to appear in an alcoholic commercial establishment so costumed or dressed that one or both breasts are wholly or substantially exposed to public view. Topless or bottomless or totally uncovered waitresses, bartenders or barmaids, entertainers including dancers, impersonators, or any other form for the attraction or entertainment of customers is strictly prohibited. Wholly or substantially exposed to public view, as it pertains to breasts, shall mean the showing of the female breast in an establishment with less than a fully opaque covering of all portions of the areola and nipple.
    (D) It shall further be unlawful for any employee, agent, servant or contractor of an alcoholic commercial establishment to permit himself or herself to be subjected to any of the acts prohibited in division (A) above by any other persons, including but not limited to, customers, patrons or fellow servants.
    (Ord. 51, passed 2-12-1996) Penalty, see § 10.99