9.20.230 Fees.

The following fees are adopted and required by this chapter :

A. Application/Investigative Fee. Each application for a license to operate or conduct a house of prostitution must be accompanied by a check or money order in the amount of five thousand dollars for each person as defined in this chapter. Payment of the nonrefundable application / investigation fee is a condition precedent to beginning an investigation.

1. The board may require payment of supplementary investigative fees, as necessary, as a condition precedent to continuing an investigation.

2. The board will not take final action with respect to any application until all investigative fees have been paid in full.

B. License Fee. Every licensed operation shall pay a quarterly fee for each calendar quarter, or any portion thereof, as follows :

1. For an operation for which the licensee declares that during that quarter, or any portion thereof, from one to and including five prostitutes will be working on the floor at that operation at any one time, one thousand five hundred dollars ;

2. For an operation for which the licensee declares that during that quarter, or any portion thereof, from six to and including twenty-five prostitutes will be working on the floor at that operation at any one time, five thousand dollars ;

3. For an operation for which the licensee declares that during that quarter, or any portion thereof, twenty-six or more prostitutes will be working on the floor at that operation at any one time, twenty-five thousand dollars.

C. Registration Fee. A registration fee of fifty dollars shall be required for each calendar quarter, or any portion thereof, and for each registration or reregistration required under Section 9.20.140.

D. The fee paid by one licensee shall not inure to the benefit of another licensee.

E. No proration of any required fee shall be allowed or granted unless provided in this chapter.

F. The registration fee so paid shall be evidenced by the registration card. Each licensee shall be responsible to ensure that each employee has a current registration card. The licensee shall immediately notify the sheriff of the termination of any employee from the licensed location.

G. All fees shall be collected and disposed of by the sheriff in the manner provided in Chapters 364 of Nevada Revised Statutes.

H. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, no fees collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or portions thereof are refundable. (Ord. 148 paragraphs 1 - 3, 1992 ; Ord. 129 (part), 1988)