For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall apply:
means alcoholic beverage, or beverages, as that term is defined
in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act (California Statutes of 1935,
page 1123, as amended)
is any such dance held or given in any place not a private
residence or home.
is any room, place, or space, except a private residence
or home, where dancing is carried on or permitted.
means a dance attended by any person fourteen or more years
of age but under nineteen years of age unaccompanied by his parent
or guardian.
(Prior code § 21.201; Ord. 161 § 1, 1989)
The requirements of this chapter are not applicable to any city
park, as defined in Section 12.28.010, which closes at or before nine
p.m.
(Prior code § 21.201.5)
The procedure to follow, except as otherwise provided in this chapter in obtaining a permit is that set forth in the Uniform Permit Procedure, Chapter 5.08.
(Prior code § 21.202)
No permit issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall
authorize the conducting, operating or carrying on of the permitted
business save at a single location and upon individual premises in
said permit described.
(Prior code § 21.203)
For the licensing purposes of this chapter, premises or establishments
whereon or wherein any public dancehall or public dance is maintained,
conducted, carried on or permitted, are hereby classified and required
to be permitted as follows:
A.
A class
A permit shall be required where there is daily or nightly dancing.
B.
A class
B permit shall be required where there is dancing not to exceed three
days or nights in any calendar week.
C.
A class
C permit shall be required when dancing is conducted one night or
one day only.
D.
A class
D permit shall be required where dancing is conducted in a bona fide
club. The term "club," as used in this chapter, means and includes
only corporations or associations created by competent authority,
which are the owners, lessees or occupants of premises operated solely
for objects of national, social, fraternal, patriotic, political,
or athletic nature, membership in which is by application, and for
which regular dues are charged, and the advantages of which said club
belong to all members, and the operation of which is not primarily
for pecuniary gain.
(Prior code § 21.204)
The fees for permits issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall be payable in advance; and for the several types or classes of permit provided in Section 5.16.050 the fees shall be as follows:
A.
For
a class A permit, one hundred ten dollars per year;
B.
For
a class B permit, one hundred ten dollars per year;
C.
For
a class C permit, fifty dollars;
D.
For
a class D permit, one hundred ten dollars per year.
(Prior code § 21.212; Ord. 51 § 2, 1980)
All class C permits shall expire at two a.m. of the calendar
day following the date of issue. Applicants may state in their applications
the date on which they desire to have the permit issued. Such permit
shall not be renewed, but a new application must be filed with the
issuing officer to obtain a new permit.
(Prior code § 21.211)
It is unlawful for any person to carry on, or conduct, or assist
in carrying on, maintaining or conducting any public dancehall or
dance in connection with any business or place where alcoholic beverages
are sold or served, in any room, place or space which does not contain
a floor space allocated to dancing.
(Prior code § 21.215)
In the event that any permittee shall desire to change the individual
designated in the permit as the person to have direct management of
the permitted premises he shall forthwith notify the sheriff, proposing
the name of the person to be substituted in the management and control
of the permitted premises. The person so proposed shall be investigated
by the sheriff. If such a person is of satisfactory character, the
sheriff may consent to such changes. In the event that such person
is not of satisfactory character, the permit may be suspended by the
sheriff, in his discretion, pending the proposal of some other person
of satisfactory character.
(Prior code § 21.216)
In addition to all other provisions of this chapter, the following
regulations shall apply to teenage dances as defined in this chapter:
A.
All
teenage dances shall be adequately supervised, and the permittee shall
provide one adult chaperone for each ten teenage participants;
B.
No alcoholic
beverages shall be sold, consumed or be available on the premises,
in or about which any teenage dance is held. Admission to a teenage
dance shall be denied to any person who is or has been drinking any
alcoholic beverage on his person;
C.
The
permittee shall employ, and there shall be on duty at all times during
any teenage dance, at least one security officer for every one hundred
participants, with a minimum of one security officer for every exit
and entrance.
(Ord. 162 § 2, 1989)
A.
It is
unlawful for the owner, proprietor, manager or person in charge of
any place permitted under the provisions of this chapter, or for any
employee of such place, to harbor, admit, receive, or permit to be
on or remain in or about such place, any intoxicated or boisterous
person, or any person whose presence or conduct tends to corrupt the
morals of any other persons present, or whose conduct or presence
tends to create a violation of the provisions of this chapter.
B.
It is
unlawful for any of the following persons to be or remain in or about
any place permitted under the provisions of this chapter: Any lewd
or dissolute person of either sex; any drunken or boisterous person
or any person whose conduct while present in said place tends to create
a violation of any of the provisions of this code, or of any law of
the state, or which tends in any way to corrupt the good morals of
any person or persons attending said dancehall, or in any way interferes
with the proper management and control of the dancehall.
(Prior code § 21.219)
It is unlawful to provide or permit any music, dancing, or entertainment
in or about any premises permitted under the provisions of this chapter
between the hours of two a.m. and eleven a.m.
(Prior code § 21.222)
No permit shall be granted under the provisions of this chapter
unless the hall or place in which said dance is to be held complies
with this code and regulations of the city. The holder of such permit
shall keep such dancehall, hallways leading thereto, and the immediate
vicinity in a clean and sanitary condition at all times, and have
all stairways, hallways, other passages, and rooms connected with
such dancehall at all times open, adequately lighted and properly
ventilated.
(Prior code § 21.223)
For any violation of the provisions of this chapter or for any
cause by it deemed sufficient, the city council may at any time, by
resolution, suspend or revoke any permit issued under the terms of
this chapter.
(Prior code § 21.226)
It shall be the duty of every owner, lessee, proprietor, manager
or occupant of any hall, room, building or place permitted under the
provisions of this chapter to have present at all times, when dancing
is carried on in such hall, room, building or place, a qualified person
or persons whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of this
chapter are lawfully carried out; provided, that the foregoing shall
not apply where dancing is carried on or permitted under a class D
permit as defined in this chapter, and where no alcoholic beverage
is sold, served or consumed on the premises so permitted.
(Prior code § 21.224)
Any peace officer of the city, or of the county or of the state,
or any officer of the United States Government charged with the duty
of enforcing the public laws of the United States Government, shall
have free access at all times to any dancehall permitted under the
provisions of this chapter.
(Prior code § 21.225)
