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(a) Definition. As used in this section, the term "service to patrons" means the provision or allowance of services, advertisement, or entertainment to the public, patrons, guests, invitees, or paying customers, including hostessing, bartending, food or beverage serving or preparing, table setting or clearing, waitering or waitressing, singing, dancing, massage, counseling, and beauty or figure contests, modeling, or exhibitions.

(b) Clothing standards. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly provide service to patrons without fully opaque clothing covering, so as not to expose to the view of the public, patrons, guests, invitees, or paying customers, human male or female genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, anal region, or post-pubertal female breast below the top of the areola.

(c) Use of premises. It shall be unlawful for any person, as the owner, lessor, lessee, or as the party having control, custody, or supervision of any commercial business, establishment, tavern, store, shop, massage parlor, or other place of public accommodation, commerce, or amusement to use or promote the use of or permit or tolerate others to use or promote the use of such premises in violation of subsection (b) of this section or, if given or having actual notice of such violation, to negligently fail or refuse to cease or stop such violation or to cause an agent, employee, or other subordinate to cease or stop such violation or to notify a law enforcement agency of such violation.

(d) Affirmative defense. It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section that the service to patrons involving such nudity provided serious literary, artistic, political, scientific, medical, educational, or theatrical value and was not provided for commercial or sexual exploitation or with an emphasis on an appeal to a prurient interest. (Code 1979, § 27-84)