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TITLE VIIA: CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD FORM-BASED CODE
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§ 690.07 Hours of Operation; Exceptions
   All public dances and all public dance halls shall be closed on or before 12:00 midnight. However, upon the application of a bona fide responsible person, club, organization, corporation or society and after investigation, the Director of Public Safety may grant such person, club, organization, corporation or society a permit to continue the dance until such time as in the opinion of the Director is reasonable.
(Ord. No. 101423. Passed 4-16-34)
§ 690.08 Minors Prohibited
   No person conducting a public dance or public dance hall or any manager or other agent of such person shall permit any person to attend or take part in any public dance who has not reached the age of eighteen (18) years, unless such person is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. No person shall represent himself or herself to have reached the age of eighteen (18) years in order to obtain admission to a public dance hall or public dance, or be permitted to remain therein when such person in fact is under eighteen (18) years of age.
(Ord. No. 94275. Passed 5-11-31)
§ 690.09 Restrictions
   No person, firm, club, society or corporation conducting a public dance or public dance hall or any agent or employee of such person, firm, club, society or corporation shall:
   (a)   Permit any known prostitute, male or female procurer or vagrant to be present at any public dance or public dance hall;
   (b)   Permit on the public dance hall premises any person having in his or her possession or being under the influence of, selling or offering for sale, giving away, or drinking any intoxicating liquors or drugs;
   (c)   Permit idlers, loiterers or other hangers-on to be on or about the dance hall premises;
   (d)   Permit smoking except in rooms reserved for smoking or in a restaurant or dining room when seated at a table;
   (e)   Permit gambling in any form on the premises;
   (f)   Permit men to enter the ladies’ room or parlor;
   (g)   Permit persons to indulge in dancing that is vulgar, suggestive or immoral;
   (h)   Permit moonlight dances unless there is sufficient light in the dance hall so that the patrons can be easily seen;
   (i)   Permit or employ any instructor under the age of twenty-one (21) years to give instructions in dancing to persons of the opposite sex;
   (j)   Discriminate between sexes by offering free admission to either sex as inducement to stimulate attendance;
   (k)   Permit endurance dancing contests commonly known as marathon dances;
   (l)   Permit dancing in restaurants with persons seated at different tables;
   (m)   Permit any cabaret or other similar entertainment in a restaurant wherein any entertainers shall perform their acts by mingling with the audience or traveling about among them.
(Ord. No. 101423. Passed 4-16-34)
§ 690.10 Temporary Permit; Fees
   No person, firm, society, club, or corporation shall hold a public dance or public ball in any licensed dance hall within the limits of the City without having first obtained a permit from the Director of Public Safety. Application for the permit must be made at least two (2) days before the dance authorized is to be held. The fees for the permits shall be as follows:
 
Floor Space (sq. ft.)
Fee
Less than 2,500
$20.00
2,500 to 6,500
$30.00
Over 6,500
$40.00
 
   No permit shall be required from the owner of a duly licensed hall, when the owner personally conducts the dance.
(Ord. No. 2393-02. Passed 2-3-03, eff. 2-3-03)
§ 690.11 Duties of Inspector of Dance Halls
   The Inspector of Dance Halls shall have authority to see that the provisions of all ordinances in any way regulating or controlling public dances or dance halls in the City are observed and enforced. The duties of the Inspector shall be to examine all applicants for dance hall licenses and permits. He or she shall investigate each application to determine whether or not the dance hall sought to be licensed complies with the regulations, ordinances and laws applicable thereto. In the making of such investigation, he or she shall, when he or she so requests, have the assistance of the Commissioner of Building, the Commissioner of Health, and the Chief of the Division of Fire. Such Inspector of Dance Halls shall furnish to the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses, in writing, the information derived from such investigation, accompanied by his or her recommendation as to whether a license should be granted or refused. The Inspector of Dance Halls, or any officer detailed by him or her, shall be permitted to have access to all public dance halls at all times. He or she shall investigate complaints and shall inspect at intervals the dance halls within the City and shall report all violations in writing. The Inspector of Dance Halls, with the approval of the Director of Public Safety, shall from time to time formulate rules and regulations not inconsistent with this chapter or any other ordinance governing the conduct of patrons of public dances, stating what dances are permitted and what dances are forbidden, together with correct position to be assumed by dancers, a copy of which rules and regulations shall be printed in large type and posted at a conspicuous place in any dance hall used for public dances.
   Members of the Division of Police under the supervision of the Chief of Police and the Inspector of Dance Halls shall have access at all times to the public dance halls and public dances. Officers and patrolmen of such Division may be detailed to investigate all complaints and supervise such public dances, and when so detailed shall visit such halls and dances and report any and all violations. Such report or reports shall be turned over to their superior officers who shall forthwith submit them to the Inspector of Dance Halls.
   The Inspector of Dance Halls, or the Chief of Police, shall have power and shall close or cause to be vacated any academy, room, dance hall, place or restaurant where any public dance is held or being given, whenever any rule or regulation, or any provision of any ordinance regulating public dances or public dance halls is being violated pending action by the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses.
(Ord. No. 94275. Passed 5-11-31)
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