No owner, tenant, keeper, proprietor or other person in the interest of such owner, tenant, keeper or proprietor, or any lessee of any such person, shall hold or operate or permit to be held or operated, a dance, entertainment or musical concert at a public meeting hall where people congregate or at premises to which the public is invited, provided, however, that the Mayor, when satisfied that the holding of a dance, entertainment or musical concert will not constitute a public nuisance by the creation of unnecessary and unseemly noise, or lewd or indecent behavior, may issue a permit for any such use upon application therefor. The Mayor shall cause the Police Department to verify the planned dance, entertainment, etc. The Mayor is hereby authorized to impose such conditions upon the issuance of such permit as he or she deems necessary for the prevention of unnecessary and unseemly noise or other nuisance. Such permit shall be in addition to, but not a substitution for, any other permit or license required for the holding of such dance, entertainment or musical concert.
A license may be issued permanently, subject to cancellation by the Mayor for the reasons aforesaid or if the institution or organization loses its qualification for exemption under this section, to a school, church or other charitable organization of the City for conduct of the activities herein regulated on its permanent premises. Such permanent license shall be without expense, provided such entertainment is an activity incidental to the chief function.
(Ord. 67-72. Passed 10-2-67.)