(A) It shall be unlawful to hold or conduct any public dance or to hold or conduct classes in dancing, or to give instructions in dancing for hire, in any hall within the limits of the city until the hall or place in which the same may be held shall first have been duly licensed as a public dance hall. The annual license fee payable for each license granted hereunder shall be $25.
(B) No license for a public dance hall shall be issued until it shall be found that the place for which it is issued complies with and conforms to all laws, ordinances, health and fire regulations applicable, thereto, and is properly ventilated and supplied with separate and sufficient toilet conveniences for each sex, and is a safe and proper place for the purpose for which it shall be used. Every person to whom a dance hall license is issued shall post the same in a conspicuous place in the dance hall governed by such license.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to whom a dance hall license is issued, or for any person conducting a public dance hall or dancing class under license from the city, to allow or permit in any dance hall any indecent act to be committed or any disorder or conduct of a gross, violent or vulgar character. Any member of the Police Department or other properly constituted city authority shall be permitted to have access to all public dances and public dance halls at all times and shall have the power and it shall be the duty of each of them to cause any dance hall to be vacated whenever any provision of this section or of any ordinance, rule or regulation concerning dance halls has been or is being violated, or wherein any ordinance, regulation or law of any character shall be violated, or whenever any indecent act shall be committed or when any disorder or conduct of a gross, violent, or vulgar character shall take place therein.
(D) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to include any dance, entertainment, carnival or exhibition given under the auspices of any church, lodge, fraternal order, or to any dance, entertainment, carnival or exhibition the proceeds of which are donated to charity.
(Ord. 1612, passed 5-6-2003) Penalty, see § 122.999