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A. Each license granted for a public dance hall shall expire on the first day of August next following its issuance. B. Each license granted for restaurant and hotel dancing shall expire one year from the date of issue. Said license is personal and cannot be directly or indirectly transferred or assigned.

A. No license for a public dance hall or a license permitting dancing in a hotel or restaurant shall be issued until it shall be found that such hall, hotel or restaurant complies with and conforms all ordinances and regulations for the protection of the public health and for the protection of the public from fire; that it is supplied with sufficient toilet conveniences; that it is a proper place for the purpose for which it is to be used; and the the owner, lessee or other person having actual control of the building and of the dance hall, hotel or restaurant is a person of good moral character and that there has been posted upon one of its walls, as required by Chapter 75 of the Code of the City of Buffalo, a certificate of inspection. B. All public ...

[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003] A. The Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services, the Commissioner of Police or any member of the Department of Police shall have the power and it shall be their duty respectively to cause a public dance hall, hotel or restaurant where any dance is being held to be vacated whenever any provision of any ordinance with regard to public dances is being violated or whenever any indecent or immoral act is committed or whenever any disorder of a gross, violent or vulgar character takes place therein with the knowledge or consent of the owner or lessee or his agent or other person in charge of the dance. B. Enforcement. The Departments of Permit and Inspection Services and of Police shall have power to enforce th...

A. All public dances shall be discontinued and all public dance halls shall be closed at or before the hour of 12:00 midnight on any day on which dancing is allowed; provided, however, that upon application of any person and after an investigation by the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services said Commissioner may grant to such person a special permit to continue any public dance until a later hour.[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003] B. No tickets shall be sold for admission to any public dance after 12:00 midnight, and no return check shall be given or issued at any time. C. No dancing shall be permitted in any hotel or restaurant from 3:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. on any day.

No person shall, after 9:00 p.m., permit any person to attend or take part in any public dance who has not actually or apparently reached the age of 16 years, unless such person is in company with one of his or her parents or a suitable guardian. No person shall represent himself or herself to have attained the age of 16 years in order to obtain admission to a public dance hall or to be permitted to remain therein when such person in fact is under 16 years of age. No person shall represent himself or herself to be a parent or guardian of any person in order that such person may obtain admission to a public dance or be permitted to remain at such public dance when the person making the representation is not in fact a parent or guardian of such minor person.

No wine, beer or other malt, spirituous or intoxicating liquors shall be sold in or carried into any public dance hall or in any room directly opening into such public dance hall or upon the same floor upon which any public dance is being held.

[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003] The Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services may make and publish reasonable rules and regulations governing the manner in which public dances shall be conducted, subject to the provisions of law and of the City Code.

A. A license issued for hotel and restaurant dancing shall be exempt from the provisions contained in §§ 150-10 and 150-12 of this chapter. B. Dances and private instructions in dancing given in private homes and dances given by a bona fide society, club or organization, where the attendance is restricted to the members of the society, club or organization who have been such members for more than 10 days before the date of any such dance (provided that where the membership of any such club, society or organization consists of men only or of women only, persons of the other sex, to a number not exceeding the number of members of any such society, club or organization, may be admitted as guests) and where the dance is merely incidental to the purposes of...

[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003] A. The license of any public dance hall may be revoked by the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services for disorderly or immoral conduct on the premises with the knowledge or consent of the owner or lessee of the public dance hall or his agent in charge at any public dance held therein or for the violation of any of the rules, regulations, ordinances and laws governing or applying to public dance halls or public dances. Such license shall be revoked in the manner provided by the Charter of the City. If at any time the license a public dance hall shall be revoked as herein provided, at least six months shall elapse before another license shall be given or a permit shall be given for dancing on the same prem...

Any person who, individually or as an officer or employee of any corporation, society, club or organization, shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to a fine or penalty of not more than $1,500 for each and every offense. Each day that a person conducts a public dance hall or a public dance or permits dancing in a restaurant or hotel without having obtained a license to do so or during any time wherein a license has been suspended or revoked shall be deemed a separate violation of this chapter.

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Buffalo as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.] GENERAL REFERENCES Eviction for illegal drug use or possession — See Ch. 270.

[Derived from Art. XVIII of Ch. VII of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974]

In connection with the sale, lease or other transfer of real estate, it shall be unlawful to engender attitudes of prejudice and discrimination or develop unfounded fears about the value of real property or create patterns of economic and social exploitation or create conditions which develop segregated communities.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association conducting business in the City of Buffalo to perform any of the following acts: A. Inciting or leading to the incitement of neighborhood unrest, community tension or fear of racial, religious, nationality or ethnic changes in street, block, neighborhood or other area or otherwise resort to or engage in any harassment, intimidation, threats or practices as part of a process or pattern to induce or promote the sale, listing for sale, leasing, assignment, transfer or other disposition of real property. B. Promote, induce, influence or attempt to promote, induce or influence by the use of postal cards, letters, circulars, telephone, visitation or any other means, directly or indirectly,...

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or association to construct, place, maintain, install, permit, allow or cause to be constructed, placed, maintained, installed or permitted any sign of any shape, size or form on or about any premises devoted to single-family, townhouse or two-family uses. B. For purposes of this section, the "signs" above-mentioned are hereby defined to mean any structure, and all parts composing the same, together with the frame, background or supports therefor, or any statuary, sculpture, molding or casting used for advertising or display purposes or any flags, bunting or material used for display or advertising purposes, including but not limited to placards, cards, structures or areas carrying the following or si...

[Derived from Art. XXIII of Ch. VII of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974]

A. The Common Council hereby finds that, in the City of Buffalo, certain membership clubs are central to business, professional and civic achievement and advancement. These membership clubs are, in this City, extensions of the marketplace wherein valuable contacts, associations and business deals are forged. Therefore, it is apparent that discrimination as to membership or facilities based upon race, sex, national origin, color or creed practiced by these clubs has the effect on denying equal opportunity to those excluded from membership or participation. Denial of business opportunities through membership club discrimination constitutes a barrier to the advancement of minorities and women in the business, professional and civic life of this City. B. T...

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association which owns, leases, manages, superintends, acts as agent for or is employed by an institution, club or place of accommodation, not in its nature distinctly private, to engage in discriminatory practices concerning membership, privileges or use of facilities connected with said institution, club or place of accommodation.

It shall be unlawful discriminatory practice to, because of the race, creed, color, national origin or sex of any person, perform any of the following acts: A. Refuse, withhold from or deny to such person membership in an institution, club or place of accommodation not in its nature distinctly private. B. Refuse, withhold from or deny to such person any of the accommodations, facilities, advantages or privileges of a club, an institution or place of accommodation not in its nature distinctly private. C. Publish, circulate, issue, display, post or mail any written or printed communication, notice or advertisement to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges of any institution, club or place of accommodation not in ...

A. An institution, club or place of accommodation shall not be considered in its nature distinctly private if it has more than 100 members, provides regular meal service and regularly receives payment for dues, fees, use of space, facilities, services, meals or beverages directly or indirectly from or on behalf of nonmembers for the furtherance of trade or business. B. For the purposes of this article, a corporation incorporated under the Benevolent Orders Law or described in the Benevolent Orders Law but formed under any other law of this state or a religious corporation incorporated under the Education Law or the Religious Corporations Law shall be deemed to be in its nature distinctly private.