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No person shall hold any public dance or give instruction in dancing for a fee, within the limits of the City, unless a dance hall license for the public dance hall in or at which such dance is to be held is in effect. No person shall permit any real property owned or controlled by him to be used as a public dance hall unless a dance hall license is in effect for such property.
(Ord. 1966-54. Passed 6-20-66.)
An application for a dance hall license shall be made to the Mayor by the owner or tenant of the real property desired to be used as a public dance hall. The form of application shall be obtained from the Office of the Mayor. Such application shall state: the street address of the proposed public dance hall; the name and residence address of an individual applicant, and of each member of a firm or partnership applicant, and of each officer of a corporate applicant; the name and residence address of the manager of such dance hall, if any; and the mailing address of the applicant. The application shall be accompanied by a plat showing the relationship of the proposed public dance hall to adjacent premises and buildings, and showing the location, size and arrangement of all rooms, entrances, exits and facilities in or pertaining to the proposed public dance hall. Upon the filing of such application, the Building Inspector, the Fire Chief and the Police Chief shall make or cause to be made an investigation of the applicant and the proposed public dance hall, and submit the reports of their investigation to the Director of Public Safety, who shall transmit the reports to the Mayor with a recommendation for the approval or disapproval of such application by the Mayor. The application shall not be approved if the reports submitted show that the applicant or any person named in the application is not of good moral character, or that a dance hall license issued to the applicant or any person named in the application has within the six months immediately preceding the filing of such application been revoked by the Mayor in accordance with Section 519.04, or that the proposed public dance hall does not comply with all applicable State statutes, City ordinances and regulations governing sanitation, health, safety and fire prevention, or that it is not properly ventilated and supplied with separate and convenient toilet facilities for each sex, or that it is not a safe place for the purpose for which it is contemplated to be used. If the Mayor approves an application for a dance hall license, he shall issue such license upon payment of a license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00), which shall be paid into the General Fund. Each dance hall license shall expire on the last day of the twelfth month following the month in which such license is issued, or earlier upon the licensee's ceasing to be the owner or tenant of the real property for which such license is issued.
(Ord. 1966-54. Passed 6-20-66.)
The Mayor at any time without hearing may suspend for up to thirty days any dance hall license, such suspension to be effective upon service upon the licensee of a written notice of suspension. After giving written notice to the licensee and after giving him an opportunity to be heard, the Mayor may revoke any dance hall license for the violation with respect to the licensed public dance hall of any State statute, City ordinance or regulation governing sanitation, health, safety or fire prevention, or any of the provisions of this chapter. The written notice of a revocation hearing shall specify a time and a day, not less than three days after the date of service of such notice, when the revocation hearing will be conducted in the office of the Mayor. A written notice of suspension, or a written notice of a revocation hearing, may be served by delivering it personally to the holder of the license, or by leaving it at the public dance hall for which the license is issued, or by posting it in a conspicuous place in or on such public dance hall, or by mailing it by registered or certified mail addressed to the holder of the license at the mailing address given in the application, or by publishing it once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City if it cannot be served in any of the other ways specified above.
(Ord. 1966-54. Passed 6-20-66.)
No person shall conduct a public dance within the City, nor shall any holder of a dance hall license permit the public dance hall for which such license is issued to be leased, subleased or otherwise used for a public dance, unless the person conducting such public dance shall first make written application and obtain a temporary dance permit therefor from the Mayor. The form of application shall be obtained in the office of the Mayor. Application for such permit must be made not less than two nor more than thirty days before the dance authorized thereunder is to be held. The fee for such permit shall be five dollars ($5.00). Such permit shall authorize the holder to conduct a public dance on the date specified in the public dance hall specified, subject to all provisions and restrictions of this chapter.
No permit shall be required for the holder of a dance hall license when such holder conducts a dance in the public dance hall for which such license is issued.
(Ord. 1966-54. Passed 6-20-66.)
No holder of a dance hall license or temporary dance permit, or any other person in control of a public dance hall, shall operate the public dance hall for which such license or permit is issued, or permit such public dance hall to remain open, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. on Sunday and 12:00 noon on the succeeding Monday, or between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Saturday, or between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on any legal holiday or between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on any other day.
(Ord. 1966-54. Passed 6-20-66.)
No holder of a dance hall license or temporary dance permit, or any other person in control of a public dance hall, shall admit to or allow to remain in the public dance hall for which such license or permit is issued, any person who has not reached the age of fourteen years, unless such person is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
(Ord. 1966-54. Passed 6-20-66.)
No holder of a dance hall license or temporary dance permit, or any other person in control of a public dance hall, shall, in the public dance hall for which such license or permit is issued:
(a) Admit or permit to remain any prostitute, male or female procurer, vagrant or person under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs:
(b) Permit to remain any person having in his possession or selling or offering for sale, giving away or drinking any alcoholic beverages or drugs; provided that this restriction shall not prohibit the sale and consumption of beer or intoxicating liquor in a public dance hall when such sale is pursuant to a retail permit issued by the State of Ohio or any agency thereof, and is in accordance with all applicable statutes and regulations;
(c) Permit unruly or disorderly behavior, or permit any unruly or disorderly person to remain;
(d) Permit gambling in any form;
(e) Permit either sex to enter the restroom area reserved for the other sex;
(f) Permit persons to indulge in dancing that is vulgar, suggestive or immoral;
(g) Permit dances in areas without sufficient light so that the patrons can be easily seen;
(h) Permit occupancy of the premises by more persons than specified in the dance hall license and temporary dance permit.
(Ord. 1966-54. Passed 6-20-66.)
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