§ 30-641. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Escort means a person who is held out to the public to be available for hire and who, for monetary consideration in the form of a fee, commission or salary, consorts with, or accompanies or who offers, for monetary consideration, to consort or accompany another or others to social affairs, entertainments or places of amusement or within any place of public resort or within any private quarters.

(1)

Service-oriented escort is an escort which:

a.

Operates from an open office;

b.

Does not employ or use an escort runner;

c.

Does not advertise that sexual conduct will be provided to the patron or work for an escort bureau which so advertises; and

d.

Does not offer or provide sexual conduct.

(2)

Sexually-oriented escort is an escort which:

a.

Employs as an employee, agent or independent contractor an escort bureau runner;

b.

Works for, as an agent, employee, contractor, or is referred to a patron by a sexually-oriented escort bureau;

c.

Advertises that sexual conduct will be provided, or works for, as an employee, agent or independent contractor or is referred to a patron by an escort bureau which so advertises;

d.

Solicits, offers to provide or does provide acts of sexual conduct to an escort patron, or accepts an offer or solicitation to provide acts of sexual conduct for a fee in addition to the fee charged by the escort bureau;

e.

Works as an escort without having a current employee permit issued for the referring escort bureau in such escort's possession at all times while working as an escort; or

f.

Accepts a fee from a patron who has not first been delivered a contract.

Escort bureau means a person who, for a fee, commission, profit, payment or other monetary consideration, furnishes, refers to, offers to furnish or refer escorts, or provides or offers to introduce patrons to escorts.

(1)

Service-oriented escort bureau is an escort bureau which:

a.

Maintains an office at an established place of business;

b.

Employs or provides only escorts who possess employee permits;

c.

Does not use an escort bureau runner; and

d.

Does not advertise that sexual conduct will be provided to a patron.

(2)

Sexually-oriented escort bureau is an escort bureau which:

a.

Does not maintain an open office;

b.

Employs as an employee, agent or independent contractor, an escort bureau runner;

c.

Advertises that sexual conduct will be provided, or that escorts which provide such sexual conduct will be provided, referred or introduced to a patron;

d.

Solicits, offers to provide or does provide acts of sexual conduct to an escort patron;

e.

Employs, contracts with or provides or refers escorts who do not possess employee permits as required in section 30-668;

f.

Does not deliver contracts to every patron or customer; or

g.

Employs, contracts with a sexually oriented escort or refers or provides to a patron a sexually oriented escort.

Escort bureau runner means an employee, agent or independent contractor of the bureau who, after the bureau receives a call from a prospective customer, goes to the customer's location to collect the escort fee and to make other necessary arrangements.

Offer to provide acts of sexual conduct means to offer, propose or to solicit to provide sexual conduct to a patron. Such definition includes all conversations, advertisements and acts which would lead a reasonably prudent person to conclude that such acts were to be provided.

Sexual conduct means the engaging in or the commission of an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy or the touching of the sexual organs, pubic region, buttock or female breast of a person for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of another person.

(Code 1977, § 14-6122)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.