(A) All applications for permits under this chapter shall be made upon forms furnished by the city and shall be accompanied by the affidavit of two freeholders and shall affirmatively show by the application and affidavits that the applicant is a person of good moral character and reputation in the community in which he or she lives; that the applicant has not within five years prior to the making of the application been convicted of a felony or gross misdemeanor. The application shall be verified and shall contain the name and address of the person, persons, committee, organization, firm or corporation who are to give, hold and conduct the public dance, the time and place where the public dance is to be held and the area of the dance floor where the dance is to be given. No application shall be granted to any person of bad character or who has been so convicted as aforesaid, nor to any person who is the keeper of a disorderly house of any kind, nor for any place which has any direct or indirect communication with any room in which intoxicating liquor is sold, given away or otherwise used, nor for any place having any so-called “private apartments” or “private rooms” furnished or used for any other than legitimate and lawful business purposes which adjoin the dancing place or which may be reached by stairs, elevator or passageway leading from the dancing place. No permit shall be issued unless the City Council is satisfied that the place where the public dance is to be given or held is properly ventilated and is equipped with necessary toilets, wash rooms, lighting facilities and that the place is not likely to become a public nuisance or detrimental to public morals, and no permit shall be issued until there has been attached thereto the certificate of the Chief of Police approving the application and the certificate of the Fire Chief that the premises upon which the dance is to be held do not constitute a fire hazard. At that time, the application shall be filed with the City Clerk and there shall be paid to the city the permit fee required for the application.
(B) The permit fee shall be as follows:
(1) For an annual license, the sum of $125; and
(2) For a single dance or series of dances extending over a period of less than one year, $3 per dance.
(1973 Code, § 9-4) (Ord. 233, passed 2-7-1949)