No person shall own, maintain or operate any public dance hall or any place where the public generally is invited, either expressly or impliedly, to dance, or where dancing by the public generally and indiscriminately is permitted in connection with any other business, place of amusement or other place where the public has access generally to such dances or for any owner or operator of any place, his agents, servants or employees to advertise, invite, hold or knowingly permit to be held any dances for the purpose of stimulation of business, directly or indirectly, whether for pay or otherwise; and no person shall attend or participate in any such public dance at any dance hall or place as hereinbefore set forth and enumerated; provided, that no dance shall be prohibited in private homes by private individuals upon invitation or where such dances are directly sponsored and controlled by any recognized fraternal or civic order, such as the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Shriners, United Mine Workers of America, Lions Club or any benevolent or charitable dance for invitation.
(1973 Code §17-5)