723.10. Transfer of licenses.

   No transfer of dance hall licenses and/or teen dance club license shall be permitted except with the consent of the Director of Finance, which consent shall be endorsed upon the license and transferred on the books of the Department of Finance, and only after the applicant applying for the transfer of any such license has complied with all the provisions herein.

(Ord. 377-99. Passed 12-7-99.)

723.11. Regulations as to minors.

   After 11:00 p.m. no person, society, club, firm, organization or corporation shall permit any person to attend or take part in any public dance who has not reached the age of seventeen years unless accompanied by a parent or guardian or suitable adult person. No person shall represent himself or herself to have reached the age of seventeen years in order to obtain admission to the public dance hall, or to be permitted to remain therein when such person is in fact under seventeen years of age. No guardian of any person in order that such person may obtain admission to a public dance hall, or be permitted to remain without being accompanied by either a parent, guardian or suitable adult person.

(Ord. 377-99. Passed 12-7-99.)

723.12. Conduct.

   Whoever conducts themselves in or around a public dance hall during the time such hall is open or being used for a public dance in an indecent, immoral or disorderly manner shall not be permitted to remain therein.

(Ord. 377-99. Passed 12-7-99.)

723.13. Hours.

   No person, society, club, firm, organization or corporation shall operate a public dance between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 12:00 noon on any day. The Director of Finance may grant special permits for the operation of a public dance beyond 2:30 a.m. on special occasions such as New Year’s Eve or upon other holidays. The foregoing limitation shall not apply to a public dance hall located in the CD Downtown Commercial District where:

   (a)   No permit has been issued from the Ohio Department of Liquor Control; and

   (b)   No alcoholic beverages will be available, served, or allowed.

   However, the establishment must close by 5:00 a.m.

(Ord. 170-04. Passed 3-23-04.)

723.14. Access to public dance hall or teen dance club.

   For purposes of enforcement of this chapter, the Vice and Narcotics Section of the Toledo Police Department or the designees thereof shall be permitted to have access to all public dance halls and teen dance clubs during the hours they are permitted to be operated as herein provided.

(Ord. 377-99. Passed 12-7-99.)