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(A) License applications. Any person or persons, firm, or corporation desiring to conduct, maintain, or operate any public dance hall within the city shall make application to the City Council for permission therefor, which application shall state location of the room, place, hall, or building; the name of the person or persons intending to operate the same; if a corporation, the names of the president, secretary, and treasurer thereof; and, if by a partnership, the names of the persons constituting same. Such application shall state the length of time of which license is applied. If the application shall be considered favorably, the City Finance Officer shall issue a license to such applicant upon payment of license fee hereafter provided.
(Prior Code, § 5.16.030)
(B) Fee. The license fee to be paid for such a license shall be $25 per year.
(Prior Code, § 5.16.040)
It is unlawful for any person, persons, firm, or corporation owning, controlling, or operating a public dance hall within the city to permit or allow the same to be open or dances participated therein between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on any day of the week including Sundays.
(Prior Code, § 5.16.070) Penalty, see § 113.99
(A) Such dance halls shall be open at all times, when dances are being held, to the police officers of the city, and such police officers shall enter such dance hall at any time and remove any person found to be in an intoxicating condition or violating any laws of the state or any ordinance of the city.
(B) The City Council, if it deems necessary, may require the employment of a matron or special officer to supervise dances conducted in a public dance hall, such matron or officer to be appointed by the City Council at a fixed compensation to be paid by the person or persons, firm, or corporation operating such dance hall.
(Prior Code, § 5.16.080) (Ord. 01-16, passed - -)
It shall be the duty of the person or persons, firm, or corporation or manager in charge of such public dance hall within the city to provide adequate illumination for the purpose of lighting all of the adjoining grounds used by the participants in connection with such public dance hall, and all of the grounds adjoining the public dance hall and used in connection therewith shall be lighted during the entire time that such public dance hall shall be used for dancing at night.
(Prior Code, § 5.16.060) Penalty, see § 113.99
SHOWS
The term SHOW, as used in this chapter, means and includes a circus, wild west show, menagerie, caravan of animals, field games, public shows, performance, entertainment, exhibition, or carnival amusement of any kind or description or type of show or any combination of such conducted, carried on, exhibited, or produced in the open air or under a tent or in any place not licensed as a theater or amusement hall or place, admission to which pay or compensation of any kind shall be required, demanded, or received or which is given or conducted for gain; provided, however, SHOW shall not mean and include entertainment given by any public or private school; lectures on historical, literary, or scientific subjects; amateur field games or contest; or fairs, concerts, exhibitions, or paintings or statuary given or made by the residents of the city for the exclusive benefit of any benevolent, religious, or charitable object in such city.
(Prior Code, § 5.20.010)
It is unlawful for any show, as described in this subchapter, to exhibit within the corporate limits of the city without first having obtained and paid for a license. The City Council may waive the license fee if the show is sponsored by any local charitable, patriotic, or fraternal or civic organization even though the show is not under the exclusive classification set out in this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 5.20.030) Penalty, see § 113.99
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