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Ordinance No. 574 Page 11 • purpose of determining whether the City acted properly, the licensee may continue in business until the conclusion of the action. (c) If the City Council decides not to grant a license to an applicant, then the applicant may commence an action in state or federal court within fifteen (15) days for the purpose of determining whether the City acted properly. The applicant shall not commence doing business unless the action is concluded in its favor. Sec. 2, Title 600, of the Mounds View City Code is amended by adding a new chapter to read: Chapter 607 - Premises Conducive to High-Rick Sexual Conduct 607.01. Purpose. The purpose of this section of the City Code 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. 607.03. Findings of the City Council. The City Council of the City of Mounds View • makes the following findings regarding the need to regulate commercial premises, buildings, and structures that are conducive to the spread of communicable disease of danger to persons in order to further the substantial interest of public health. (a) The experience of other cities establishes that certain commercial premises, buildings, and structures, or parts thereof, by reason of the design and use of such premises, buildings, or structures are conducive to the spread of communicable 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, building, and structures, or parts thereof can facilitate high-risk sexual conduct. (c) Medical publications of the Center for Disease Control of the United Stated 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.