5.40.050 Regulations applicable to commercial establishments not qualifying as an adult book store, adult video store or adult novelty store.
Establishments that offer for sale or rental for some form of consideration, books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, video disks or other forms of reproduction, the contents of which are characterized by the depiction or description of specific sexual activities or specific anatomical areas and establishments that offer for sale or rental for some form of consideration, sexual devices, novelties or paraphernalia as defined in the Lacey Municipal Code 5.40.020(C) but do not qualify as adult book, adult video or adult novelty stores, shall be subject to the following regulations:
A. All items as are described in the definitions of adult bookstore, adult video store, and adult novelty store, shall be physically segregated and closed off from other portions of the store such that these items are not visible from other portions of the store.
B. No advertising for such items other than a sign stating “adult products, adults only” shall be posted or otherwise visible outside of the physically segregated and closed off portion of the store where such items are displayed.
C. Signs readable at a distance of twenty feet in both English and Spanish shall be posted at the entrance to the area where such items are displayed stating that persons under the age of eighteen are not allowed access to the area where such items are displayed.
D. The manager or attendant shall take reasonable steps to monitor the area where such items are displayed to ensure that persons under eighteen years of age do not access the age-restricted area.
E. Rental or sale of such material or products to persons under eighteen years of age is prohibited.
F. Employees of such video stores shall check identification to ensure that such items are not rented or sold to persons under the age of eighteen. (Ord. 1247 §4, 2005; Ord. 991 §1, 1994).