State of Nevada Laws:
Dancing halls, escort services,
entertainment by referral services and gambling games or
devices; limitation on licensing of houses of prostitution
NRS 244.345
Dancing halls, escort services,
entertainment by referral services and gambling games or
devices; limitation on licensing of houses of prostitution.
1.
Every natural person wishing to be employed as an entertainer
for an entertainment by referral service and every natural
person, firm, association of persons or corporation wishing to
engage in the business of conducting a dancing hall, escort
service, entertainment by referral service or gambling game or
device permitted by law, outside of an incorporated city, must:
(a) Make
application to the license board of the county in which the
employment or business is to be engaged in, for a county license
of the kind desired. The application must be in a form
prescribed by the regulations of the license board.
(b) File the
application with the required license fee with the county
license collector, as provided in chapter
364 of NRS, who shall present the application to the license
board at its next regular meeting.
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The board, in counties whose population is less than 400,000,
may refer the petition to the sheriff, who shall report upon it
at the following regular meeting of the board. In counties whose
population is 400,000 or more, the board shall refer the
petition to the metropolitan police department. The department
shall conduct an investigation relating to the petition and
report its findings to the board at the next regular meeting of
the board. The board shall at that meeting grant or refuse the
license prayed for or enter any other order consistent with its
regulations. Except in the case of an application for a license
to conduct a gambling game or device, the county license
collector may grant a temporary permit to an applicant, valid
only until the next regular meeting of the board. In
unincorporated towns and cities governed pursuant to the
provisions of chapter
269 of NRS, the license board has the exclusive power to
license and regulate the employment and businesses mentioned in
this subsection.
2. The
board of county commissioners, and in a county whose population
is less than 400,000, the sheriff of that county constitute the
license board, and the county clerk or other person designated
by the license board is the clerk thereof, in the respective
counties of this state.
3. The
license board may, without further compensation to the board or
its clerk:
(a) Fix,
impose and collect license fees upon the employment and
businesses mentioned in this section.
(b) Grant or
deny applications for licenses and impose conditions,
limitations and restrictions upon the licensee.
(c) Adopt,
amend and repeal regulations relating to licenses and licensees.
(d) Restrict,
revoke or suspend licenses for cause after hearing. In an
emergency the board may issue an order for immediate suspension
or limitation of a license, but the order must state the reason
for suspension or limitation and afford the licensee a hearing.
4. The
license board shall hold a hearing before adopting proposed
regulations, before adopting amendments to regulations, and
before repealing regulations relating to the control or the
licensing of the employment or businesses mentioned in this
section. Notice of the hearing must be published in a newspaper
published and having general circulation in the county at least
once a week for 2 weeks before the hearing.
5. Upon
adoption of new regulations the board shall designate their
effective date, which may not be earlier than 15 days after
their adoption. Immediately after adoption a copy of any new
regulations must be available for public inspection during
regular business hours at the office of the county clerk.
6.
Except as otherwise provided in NRS
241.0355, a majority of the members constitutes a quorum for
the transaction of business.
7. Any
natural person, firm, association of persons or corporation who
engages in the employment of any of the businesses mentioned in
this section without first having obtained the license and paid
the license fee as provided in this section is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
8. In a
county whose population is 400,000 or more, the license board
shall not grant any license to a petitioner for the purpose of
operating a house of ill fame or repute or any other business
employing any person for the purpose of prostitution.
9. As
used in this section:
(a)
“Entertainer for an entertainment by referral service” means
a natural person who is sent or referred for a fee to a hotel or
motel room, home or other accommodation by an entertainment by
referral service for the purpose of entertaining the person
located in the hotel or motel room, home or other accommodation.
(b)
“Entertainment by referral service” means a person or group
of persons who send or refer another person to a hotel or motel
room, home or other accommodation for a fee in response to a
telephone or other request for the purpose of entertaining the
person located in the hotel or motel room, home or other
accommodation.
[1:50:1923;
NCL § 2037] + [2:50:1923; NCL § 2038] + [3:50:1923; NCL §
2039] + [4:50:1923; NCL § 2040]—(NRS A 1959, 838; 1961, 364;
1971, 11; 1973, 923; 1975, 562; 1979, 20, 305, 511, 728, 730,
732, 733; 1989, 1899; 1991, 166; 2001,
1124)
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