§ 18-89. Adult entertainment licenses are nontransferable.  


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  • No license for an adult entertainment establishment may be sold, transferred or assigned by a licensee, or by operation of law, to any other person(s) or business entity. Any such sale, transfer or assignment, or attempted sale, transfer or assignment, shall be deemed to constitute a voluntary surrender of such license and such license shall thereafter be null and void; provided and excepting, however, that if the licensee is a partnership and one or more of the partners should die, one or more of the surviving partners may acquire, by purchase or otherwise, the interest of the deceased partner or partners without effecting a surrender or termination of such license, and in such case, the license, upon notification to the county, shall be placed in the name of the surviving partner. A license issued to a corporation shall be deemed terminated and void when either any outstanding stock of the corporation is sold, transferred or assigned after the issuance of a license, or any stock authorized but not issued at the time of the granting of such license an is thereafter issued and sold, transferred or assigned. A license issued to a limited liability company shall be deemed terminated and void when any members and managers are added who have not been previously identified on the license application.

(Res. No. 06-0470, Exh. A, 5-3-06)