(a) A person who is issued a Class A, Class B, or Class C dance hall license may apply, on a form provided by the chief of police, for a late-hours permit. Upon receipt of the application and payment of the late-hours permit fee, the chief of police shall issue a late-hours permit to the applicant, except that no late- hours permit may be issued for a dance hall located within 1,000 feet of:
(1) a boundary of a residential district as defined in Chapter 41A of this code; or
(2) the property line of a lot devoted to a residential use as defined in Chapter 41A of this code, whether such use is within the city limits or not.
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a) of this section, measurement will be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest part of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a dance hall is conducted, to the nearest boundary of a residential district or property line of a lot devoted to a residential use.
(c) Dance halls with two-year exemptions from locational restrictions.
(1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), upon receipt of a late-hours permit application and payment of the late-hours permit fee for a dance hall that has been granted a two-year exemption from locational restrictions by the permit and license appeal board under Section 14-2.3 of this chapter, the chief of police shall issue a late-hours permit to the applicant without requiring further action by the permit and license appeal board, except that no late-hours permit may be issued if the chief finds that:
(A) the exemption has expired;
(B) the applicant has had a dance hall license suspended, revoked, or denied within the 24 months preceding the application for the late-hours permit; or
(C) the applicant, or any employee of a dance hall of the applicant, has committed a violation of this chapter within the 24 months preceding the application for the late-hours permit.
(2) If the chief of police denies a late-hours permit under Paragraph (1) of this subsection, the dance hall’s two-year exemption from the locational restrictions of this section becomes void, and the applicant must obtain another exemption from the permit and license appeal board in accordance with Section 14-2.3 before a late-hours permit may be issued for the dance hall.
(d) Once issued, a late-hours permit is considered a part of the license for a Class A, Class B, or Class C dance hall and is valid only when the dance hall license it accompanies is valid. (Ord. Nos. 18725; 21184; 21837; 23137; 24440; 25002)