DIVISION 3. - ENTERTAINMENT IN PREMISES LICENSED FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION

Sec. 4-62. - Liquor license suspension, revocation or other sanction.#

(a)

The city council sitting as the city board of license commissioners may summon any licensee on charges and/or for a hearing on charges of violating any city, state or federal regulation or law. After notice and the opportunity to be heard, the city council sitting as the city board of license commissioners may sanction the licensee including fines, suspension of license, revocation of license, and/or any other sanction reasonably related to the findings of fact.

(b)

If the owner, operator, licensee, lessor, lessee, manager, employee, or any other person participating in the operation of the establishment located within the city at which alcoholic beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises, shall violate or be in violation of any of the provisions of section 4-63, the city council shall revoke the liquor license for said establishment after giving reasonable notice thereof to the holder of said license and affording the holder an opportunity to be heard as to why the license should not be revoked.

(Code 1994, § 6-187; Ord. of 11-6-2000; Ord. of 8-13-2014)

Sec. 4-63. - Prohibition.#

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person maintaining, owning or operating an establishment located within the boundaries of the city at which alcoholic beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises:

(1)

To suffer or permit any female person, while on the premises of said establishment, to expose to the public view that area of the human female breast at or below the top of the areola thereof.

(2)

To suffer or permit any female person, while on the premises of said establishment, to employ any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance of or simulate such portions of the human female breast as described in subsection (a)(1) of this section.

(3)

To suffer or permit any person, while on the premises of said establishment, to expose to public view his genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, or anal cleft.

(4)

To suffer or permit any person, while on the premises of said commercial establishment, to employ any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance of or simulate the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, or anal cleft.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for any female person, while on the premises of an establishment located within the city, at which alcoholic beverages are served or offered for sale for consumption on the premises to expose to public view that area of the human female breast at or below the top of the areola thereof, or to employ any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance or simulate such areas of the female breast as described herein.

(c)

It shall be unlawful for any person, while on the premises of an establishment located within the city, at which alcoholic beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises, to expose to public view his genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus or anal cleft.

(Code 1994, § 6-185; Ord. of 11-6-2000; Ord. of 8-13-2014)

State Law reference— Indecent exposure, G.L. 1956, § 11-45-1(a)(8).