Section 4.84.010 Definitions.

1. "Influential Interest" means any of the following:

a. The actual power, directly or indirectly, to control the operation, management or policies of a business or entity,

b. Ownership of a financial interest of thirty percent (30%) or more of a business or of any class of voting securities of a business; or

c. Holding an office (e.g., president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, etc.) or directorship in a legal entity which operates the body piercing business.

2. "Licensee" shall mean a person in whose name a license to operate a body piercing business has been issued, as well as the individual or individuals listed as an applicant on the application for a body piercing business license.

3. Specified Criminal Activity” means any of the following specified crimes for which less than five years elapsed since the date of conviction, guilty plea, plea of nolo contendere, or the date of release from confinement for the conviction, guilty plea, or plea of nolo contendere, whichever is the later date and which occurred in connection with or on premises being used by the person for the purpose of tattooing or body piercing:

a. vice offenses (Iowa Code Ch. 725);

b. obscenity offenses (Iowa Code Ch. 728);

c. controlled substances offenses (Iowa Code Ch. 124, Div. IV);

or any offense committed in another jurisdiction that, had the predicate acts been committed in Iowa, would constitute any of the foregoing specified Iowa offenses.

4. “Body piercing artist” means a person who, gratuitously or for a fee, practices body piercing.

5. "Practice(s) body piercing" means to penetrate the skin or the mucous membrane of an individual for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other forms of body adornment.

6. “Body piercing establishment” means a enclosed building or part thereof which has been licensed by the city for the purpose of practicing body piercing. (Ord. 2006-0831)