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disease of danger to persons frequenting such premises, buildings, or structures, as well as to the general public, and that the risk of spreading infectious and contagious diseases can be minimized by regulating such commercial premises, buildings, and structures. (b) The experience of other cities where such commercial premises, buildings, and structures are present indicates that the risk of spreading the sexually transmittable disease of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is increased by the presence of such premises, buildings, and structures, because the design or use of such premises, buildings, and structures, or parts thereof can facilitate high-risk sexual conduct. (c) Medical publications of the Center for Disease Control of the United States Department of Health and Human Services indicate that the sexually transmittable disease of AIDS is currently irreversible and uniformly fatal. . Medical research has further established that the risk factors for obtaining or spreading AIDS are associated with high risk sexual conduct. (d) Certain commercial premises, buildings, and structures, or parts thereof, by reason of their design and use, are conducive to high-risk sexual conduct and hence the spread of communicable disease, and that the risk of spreading infectious and contagious diseases can be minimized by regulating these commercial premises, buildings, and structures. (e) The public health, safety, morals and general welfare will be promoted by the city adopting regulations governing commercial premises, buildings, and structures conduce to high-risk sexual conduct. . (t) The purpose of these regulations is to prescribe regulations governing commercial premises, buildings, and structures that are conducive, by virtue of design and use, to high-risk sexual conduct which can result in the spread of sexually transmitted diseases to persons frequenting such premises, buildings, and structures. Sec. 15.421. Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms have the meanings given them. (a) "Booths, stalls, or partitioned portions of a room or individual room" means (i) enclosures specifically offered to persons for a fee or as an incident to performing high-risk sexual conduct, or (ii) enclosures which are part of a business operated on the premises which offers movies or other entertainment to be viewed within the enclosure, including enclosures wherein movies or other entertainment is dispensed for a fee, but does not include enclosures that are private offices used by the owners, managers or persons employed by the premises for attending to the tasks of their employment, and which are not held out to the public or members of the establishment for hire or for a fee or for the purpose of viewing movies or DJG98265 NR136-127 11