For California bars and clubs with an on-sale liquor licence that present dancers

Eighteen inches up. Six feet back. Signed every night.

Apron keeps the measured height of every stage and the distance to the nearest patron, each staff member’s and entertainer’s dated sign-off on the house conduct rule, and the manager’s nightly check — and will not sign a night while a stage in use fails the rule or anyone on the floor has not signed. When an ABC agent walks in, it prints the file.

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The problem

The licence rides on eighteen inches and six feet.

California’s alcohol rule 143.3 says a performer whose breasts or buttocks are exposed may perform only on a stage at least 18 inches above the floor and at least six feet from the nearest patron. A licensee that permits otherwise may not hold an on-sale licence at the premises. When the agent asks how you know your stages comply, the answer has to be on paper.

18 in

the lowest a stage may stand above the immediate floor for an exposed performer.

Cal. Code Regs. tit. 4, § 143.3 →

6 ft

the closest the nearest patron may be to that performer.

Cal. Code Regs. tit. 4, § 143.3 →

No licence

what the rule says for a licensee that permits the conduct: it may not hold an on-sale licence at those premises.

Cal. Code Regs. tit. 4, § 143.3 →

Will not sign a night the room does not meet.

Not a reminder. Sign refuses, with the reason named, while a stage in use is under 18 inches or closer than six feet, unmeasured, overdue for measuring or marked changed, while anyone on the floor has no current sign-off on the conduct rule, or while a nightly box is unticked with no note saying what was done. There is no override.

How it works

Stages, people, tonight

Measure each stage

Its height and the distance to the nearest patron position, the date, who measured and how. Mark it changed when the floor or a rail moves.

Have everyone sign

Staff and entertainers sign the current house conduct rule. Change the rule and everyone signs again.

Sign the night

The manager ticks the stages in use, who is on the floor and five boxes. If the agent comes, the investigator file prints the last thirty days.

What it will never do

It keeps the file. It does not certify the room.

Apron records what you measured and who signed. It does not tell you a room is lawful.

No measuring for you.You measure the stage; Apron keeps the number and the date.

No home addresses or IDs.A house number for an entertainer is enough.

It is not a lawyer.A hearing goes to one. Apron is the file you take with you.

It never touches a payment.The subscription is for software.

Pricing

Priced per venue

Less than one night’s door a month, against the licence the whole business rides on.

Most clubs

One venue

$19/month

One licensed room with stages.

Every stage measurement
Sign-offs on the conduct rule
Nightly gate, no override

One venue, yearly

$190/year

The same, two months free.

Everything in One venue
Investigator file, thirty days
Export for your lawyer

Subscription. Your bank statement says Apron Software. First payment refunded in full on request within 14 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

How often should a stage be measured?

Every 90 days by default, and again whenever it is marked changed — new flooring, a rail moved, a stage rebuilt.

Who has to sign?

Everyone on the floor: entertainers, floor hosts, managers. Once a year by default, and again when the house rule changes.

What does the agent get?

One printable page: the venue and licence number, every measurement, every sign-off, every nightly check for the last 30 days, and every gap named plainly.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the file you wish you had kept.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

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Stage 2 measures 16.5 inches after new flooring. The side stage has not been measured in 130 days. One entertainer signed last year’s rule, a floor host’s sign-off has run out, and two open nights have no check. Apron catches every one.

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