This article shall be known as the "Dancehall Ordinance."
(Code 1975, § 6-1)
The provisions of this article shall not apply to private clubs, societies, persons or corporations where the attendance is restricted to the members of the society, club or corporation, and their invited guests, and from which the general public is excluded. The city, schools, churches and nonprofit civic organizations are also excluded from the provisions of this article.
(Code 1975, § 6-2)
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Cabaret, nightclub, tavern
means any space, structure, building or resort open to the public, enclosed or unenclosed, where patrons are provided with a space for dancing or are permitted to dance.
Club
means any bona fide nonprofit society, association of persons or corporation organized for civic, fraternal, social or charitable purposes or any purpose not a business or commercial purpose, which owns, rents or operates a place or building for the accommodation of its members, when such place or premises or any part thereof is used for dancing by members of the club or is rented to others for such purposes.
Dancehall
means any room, space or building where a public dance is held.
Dancing school
means any room, space or academy in which classes in dancing are held and instruction in dancing is given for hire.
Operator
means the person who conducts, manages, maintains or controls, either directly or indirectly, any dancehall as defined and designated herein.
Private dance
means any dance given at any home, or any dance given or held by a bona fide club, admission to which is granted to members and their invited guests and from which the general public is excluded.
Public dance
means any dance to which admission can be had by paying a fee, or by the purchase, possession or presentation of a ticket or token, or in which a charge is made for checking wearing apparel or parcels, or any other dance in which the public generally may gain admission with the payment of a fee, directly or indirectly, or without payment of a fee.
Public place
means for the purpose of preserving the public peace, health and safety, the entire premises occupied by a dancehall, together with the means for ingress and egress thereto and therefrom, are hereby declared to be a public place.
(Code 1975, § 6-3)
For the purposes of this article, dancehalls are hereby divided into three classifications as follows:
(1) 
Class A:
All cabarets, nightclubs and taverns shall be Class A dancehalls.
(2) 
Class B:
All dancehalls, other than Class A and Class C, shall be Class B dancehalls.
(3) 
Class C:
Dancing schools shall be Class C dancehalls.
(Code 1975, § 6-4)
No dancehall shall have in any way connected with it any room equipped or fitted in any way as a sleeping room which is open to or let to the patrons of such dancehall or to the public, with or without a charge being made therefor, except a bona fide hotel.
(Code 1975, § 6-6)
Free access and entrance into all dancehalls shall be accorded and granted at all times to the police officers of the city or as otherwise designated by the city manager or agents of the state liquor control board on official duty.
(Code 1975, § 6-8)
At any dance scheduled, held or sponsored for teenage persons, the operator of the dancehall shall be required to have uniformed police personnel on the premises, at the operator's sole expense, in such numbers as the chief of police or as otherwise designated by the city manager shall deem appropriate and necessary.
(Code 1975, § 6-9)
All Class A and Class B dancehalls shall close and not operate between the hours of 12:01 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., except on Saturday nights when the hour of closing shall be 1:00 a.m.; provided, however, that the chief of police or as otherwise designated by the city manager may grant special permits in writing to licensees to operate until a later hour upon special occasions. Applications for such special permits shall be made not less than 72 hours prior thereto.
(Code 1975, § 6-10)
No person under the age of 13 years shall be permitted to attend or take part in any public dance at a dancehall, unless such minor is accompanied by his parent or guardian; and it shall be unlawful for any person to falsely represent himself to be either a parent or guardian of such minor for the purpose of gaining his admittance to a dancehall.
(Code 1975, § 6-11)