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Ordinance No. 574 Page 13 Subd. 2. No person shall own, operate, manage, rent, lease, or exercise control of any commercial building, structure, premises, or portion or part thereof in the City, which contains: (a) Partitions between subdivisions of a room, portion or part of a building, structure or premises having an aperture which is designed or constructed to facilitate sexual activity, including but not limited to vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, or fellatio, between persons on either side of the partition. (b) "Booths, stalls, or partitioned portions of a room or individual room" as defined herein which have "doors, curtains or portal partitions" as defined herein unless such booths, stalls, partitioned portions of a room or individual room have at least one side open to an adjacent public room so that the area inside is visible to persons in the adjacent public room as defined herein. Booths, stalls, and/or partitioned portions of a room or individual room that are so open to an adjacent public room shall be lighted in a manner that the persons in the area used for viewing motion pictures or other forms of entertainment are visible from the adjacent public rooms, but such lighting shall not be of such intensity as to prevent the viewing of the motion pictures or other offered entertainment. 607.09. Exceptions. The regulations set forth in this section shall not apply to premises, • buildings, or structures that are lawfully operating and licensed as hotels, motels, apartment complexes, condominiums, townhomes, or boarding houses which are subject to other general health and sanitation requirements under state and local law. 607.11. Health Enforcement Powers. Subd. 1. In exercising powers conferred by this or any other section of this Code relating to communicable diseases, the Public Health Official shall be guided by the most recent instructions, opinions and guidelines of the Center of Disease Control of the United States Department of Health and Human Services which relate to the spread of infectious diseases. Subd. 2. In order to ascertain the source of the infection and reduce its spread, the Public Health Official, and persons under the Public Health Official's direction and control, shall have full power and authority to inspect or cause to be inspected, and to issue orders regarding any commercial building, structure or premises, or any part thereof, which may be a site of high-risk sexual conduct. If the Public Health Official determines that a hazardous site as defined herein exists, the Public Health Official shall declare it to be a public health hazard and public health nuisance and shall then: (a) Notify the manager, owner, or tenant of the hazardous site that the Public Health Official has reasonable belief that the premises, building or structure is a hazardous site as defined herein.