721.01 DEFINITIONS.

   As used in this chapter:

   (a)    "Public dance" means any dance to which admission may be had by the payment, directly or indirectly, of a fee, or any dance to which the public generally may gain admission with or without the payment of a fee; provided that a dance given by a bona fide religious, charitable or fraternal organization, for its members only and their families shall not be included.

   (b)    "Public dance hall" means any room or rooms, place or space in which a public dance shall be held or in which classes in dancing are conducted, or instruction in dancing given for hire, except the hall or quarters of a bona fide religious, charitable or fraternal organization when in the use of its own members, and not sublet to any person or organization for the purpose of giving a public dance or for conducting a class in dancing or giving instruction in dancing for hire.

   (c)    "Person of bad moral character" means a person known, to the grantee of any license for a public dance hall, or of any permit for a public dance or for a dancing class, to the manager, owner or lessee of a public dance hall, to any person conducting a public dance or conducting a class in dancing, or to the police or to any other officer or authority whose duty it may be to regulate or supervise public dance halls or public dances, to be a person who has the reputation or character of being, or who has pleaded guilty or been convicted of being a male or female procurer, or a vagrant, or of any crime or offense involving moral turpitude.

      (1931 Code §56.3005)