(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a public ballroom or dance hall within the city, unless that person, partnership, or corporation shall first obtain a license from the mayor. PUBLIC BALLROOM or PUBLIC DANCE HALL includes any dance or ball where an admission fee, cover charge, or its equivalent is required, by either the owner or operator of the ballroom or dance hall or a lessee of same, whether the room or hall is rented for one or more events.
(B) The license fee for the public ballroom or dance hall shall be $1,000 per year where alcoholic beverages are sold or permitted to be consumed on the premises, and $10 per year or any fractional part of the year where alcoholic beverages are not sold nor are permitted to be consumed on the premises. If the public ballroom or dance hall shall be in operation for six months or less, then the license fee shall be $600 where alcoholic beverages are sold or permitted to be consumed on the premises. The annual licensing fee is due and payable January 2 of each year and the six months fee is due and payable January 2 and July 1 of each year.
(C) Before the license is issued in or adjacent to a residential district, the clerk shall notify all owners or occupants of residences located within 300 feet of the building in which it is proposed to establish and maintain the ballroom and dance hall and set a date not less than 5 days or more than 10 days for hearing before the mayor upon the application.
(D) If a majority of the owners or occupants protest in writing against the issuance of the license, the mayor, if he finds upon investigation that it would be for the best interest of the neighborhood so to do, shall refuse to issue the license.
(E) The mayor may, at his discretion, grant a permit without charge for any ball or dance to be given by, or for, the benefit of any purely civic, benevolent, charitable, educational, religious society or organization, or by and for the benefit of any society or organization genuinely and regularly conducted for a purpose other than the giving of balls or dances, provided that the application for any permit be applied for 5 days prior to the date of the proposed ball or dance and any such dance shall be termed to be a private ball or dance. No license or permit shall be issued unless the applicant is a reputable person of good moral character, and unless the building or hall in which the ball or dance is conducted shall comply with all building, health, fire, and safety regulations of the state and city, and is adequately ventilated and is supplied with sufficient toilet facilities.
('68 Code, § 56.12) (Ord. 83-1980, passed 12-17-80) Penalty, see § 113.99