SB1698

THE CONTEXT: An adult oriented business means adult arcades, adult bookstores or video stores, cabarets, adult live entertainment establishments, adult motion picture theaters, adult theaters, massage establishments that offer adult service or nude model studios ( A. R.

WHAT THE BILL DID: Establishes the offense of unlawful exposure to an adult oriented performance or business and classifies a violation as a class 4 felony.

WHY IT MATTERED: The practical reason for this bill was to make the government process for unlawful exposure more definite and accountable. It would state that a person commits unlawful exposure to an adult oriented performance or adult oriented business by knowingly: a) allowing a minor under the person's custody or control to view an adult oriented performance or enter an adult oriented business; b) allowing a minor to enter or remain in an adult oriented business or a building or part of a building where an adult oriented performance is occurring; or c) performing or allowing another person, if the other person is under control or custody of the person allowing the performance, to perform an adult oriented performance in view of a minor, and would also classifies unlawful exposure to an adult oriented performance or adult oriented business as a class 4 felony, punishable as a DCAC if the minor is under 15 years old, rather than leave the current rule unchanged.