§ 5.16.040. Public dance license required—Requirements and conditions of issuance.

A.

Any person desiring to conduct a public dance within the city, shall first secure a license from the city.

B.

Application for the license shall be made in writing to the city clerk at least forty-eight hours before the dance is to be held, and the application shall set forth the name of the applicant, the time and place where the dance is to be held, and any other information pertaining to the dance. The application shall be accompanied by a license fee in the amount of ten dollars.

C.

The application, upon receipt by the city clerk, shall be referred by the clerk to the chief of police. The chief of police shall investigate the matters set out in the application, and if in his opinion the character of the applicant, or the time at which the dance is to be held, or any other information contained in the application, are such that the conducting of such dance would be detrimental to the public health, safety, morals or welfare, he shall endorse the application as rejected; otherwise the application shall be endorsed as approved. The chief of police shall thereupon return the application as endorsed to the city clerk.

D.

If, but only if, the application is endorsed approved, the clerk shall issue to the named applicant a license to operate the dance. In the event any such application is denied, the license fee of ten dollars shall be returned to the applicant.

E.

The license shall be valid only for the time and place issued.

F.

All licenses issued under this section shall expire at two a.m. the day following the day of commencement of the dance.

(Prior code § 7-5).