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Home My WebLink About41 of 1919 - Amending Chapter 44, relating to dance halls ROLL CALL ,,,,,,,o,p,,,,E,DM. VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City,Utah, duly-.9th ,191 9, 2_/.12 Crabbe I move that the ordinance be passed. Green _ __ Neslen _ ( 9 Scheid ._. _ / ^ 3.1J • Mr. Chairman 1 __ Result I AN ORDINA CE An Ordinance repealing Seotione 984 as amended,985 as amended; 986 as amended, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993, 994, and 995 in Chapter 44, Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, 1913; relating to public dance halls, and enacting new seotions in lieu thereof to be known as Sections 984, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993, 994 and 995. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City; Utah: SECTION 1. That Seotions 984 as amended, 985 as amended, 986 as amended, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993, 994 and 995 of Chapter 44, Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, 1913, be, and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. There is hereby enacted a new ordinanoe relate ing to public dance halls in Salt Lake City, inoluding Sections 984, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993, 994 and 99,5 as follows: SECTION 984. It shall be unlawful to hold or conduct . any public dance in any dance hail or plane within the limits of Salt Lake City until such dance hail or other plaoe in which the same may be held shall first have been duly licensed as a public dance hall. The license fee required for a public dance , hall shall be $10.00 per day or $400.00 per year, if such hall 1 or plaoe be operated by the year. 41 i ,I II No4icense or a publio dance hall shall be issued until it shall ba,:found that the place for whioh it is issued complies with and eSSIOrms to all laws, ordinances, health, and fire row gulationsapplieable thereto and is properly ventilated and supplied with separate and sufficient toilet conveniences for each sex, and is a,safe 44d proper place for the purpose for whioh it shall be used. Evietyperson to whom a dance hall license is issued shall post the sane in a conepiouous place in the danoe hall covered by such fprTION.985. The license of any public dance hall may be revoked for Ohaviolation of any provision of this or any other ordinanomerilai relating to suoh places, or rules or regulations PromegMte4 thereunder. If at any time the license of a publio dance halhall be revoked, at least three months shall elapse before 440.40 license or permit shall be granted to the manager, _ tawasri 004000.41 of euoh dance hall. 400101( 986, It shall be unlawful for any person to whom . _ a dense bfl .tcene is issued, or for any person oonduoting a publio 4440s halllet.41notmg Owis under permit from the city, to allow or permit in44ytance hall any indecent act to be ()omitted or any dieergeWsp,semAsst of a gross, violent,' or vulgar character, or to permit $4447iMsoh dance hall any known prostitute, pimp, or prow waxer. 404ejsenber of the police and detective departments; or in. specter if 406n0o halls. or other properly constituted authority, shall hale the power, and it shall be the duty of each of them, to case anp-*Une hall to be vaoated Whenever any provision of this oritiseseO0r of any ordinance; regulation, or law concerning dance halls ha000a or is being violated, or wherein any ordinance, row gulstieni,mw law of any character shall be violated, or whenever es.7410400101tMot shall be committed, or when any disorder or oonw dtotmfa gross, violent, or vulgar character shall take place there... ini eralOonsen prostitute, pimp; or procurer be found to be present in slush gn00. .2. 'It SECTION 98'7. It shall be unlawful to permit any person; who has not reached the age of eighteen years; to attend or remain at any public dance', unless such person be accompanied by the parent or legal guardian of such person. It shall be unlawful for any per- son to represent himself or herself to have reached the age of eighteen years in order to attend or remain at any public dance, when such person in fact is under eighteen years of age', and it shall be unlawful for any person to falsely represent himself or herself to be a parent or legal guardian of any person in older that such person may attend or remain in any public &a='ce. SECTION 988. It shall be uriawful for any sewn prostitute, male or female procurer, or vagrant to be prea.ent a any public dance hall. SECTION 989, It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct or maintain any public dance or public dance hall; or having charge or control thereof', to conduct; carry on, or permit any dance or dancing therein between the hours of twelve o'clock midnight of any day and six o'clock A. M. of the following day;' or upon any Sunday. SECTION 990. No pass out or return cheeks shall be issued for use by- persons who leave the dance hall, its anterooms and such portions of the grounds immediately adjacent to such dance hall as are well lighted and under the immediate pontrol of the dance hall management; and all persons leaving the dance hall, its anterooms and well lighted grounds immediately adjacent thereto, shall be required to pay the regular admission fee in ease of return to such dance hall. Each dance hail must be under such control of the management thereof that this section may be reasonably com- plied with. SECTION 9910 The Chief of Police shall designate one or more competent officers in the Police Department as Inspectors of dance halls', whose duty it shall be to examine all applications for public dances and who shall investigate each application to determin whether or not the dance halls sought to be licensed conform wit+htb I I I u e= regulations, ordinances and laws applicable thereto. The findings of the Inspector shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by a recommendation as to whether a license shall be granted or re- fused. Such Inspectors shall be permitted to have aooess to all public dance halls and all public dances at: all times and shall in- vestigate complaints, and shall inspect at least once every month, the dance halls within the city. Such Inspectors shall be charged with the enforcement of this ordinance and shall have, when desired, the assistance of any department of the government of Salt Lake City in performing any of the duties delegated by this ordinance. SECTION 992. It shall be unlawful for any person conducting or maintaining a public dance hall or public dance to conduct any dance or dancing after sunset of any day unless seek hall be lighted either by gas or electric light, or other means, in seal manner and to such extent as is usual or customary for lighting halls or rooms of like dimensions in the night time for public assemblies, before any person is admitted thereto, and before any dance or dancing is commenced therein, and unless suoh lighting shall be maintained there- after without diminution and without interruption throughout the entire time while such dance or dancing is in progress, and until such dance or dancing is concluded and such hall :ix is cleared and closed. SECTION 993o The term "public dance" as used in this ordinance shall mean any dance to which admission can be had by payment directly or indirectly of a fee, or any dance to which the public generally may gain admission with or without the payment of a fee. The term "public dance hall" as used herein shall mean any room, place, or space in which a public dance shall be held or in which classes in dancing are held and instruction in dancing is given for hire. The term "known" used in connection with the words "prostitute," or "male or female procurer", or vagrant, shall mean}snown to the manager, owner, or lessee of a public dance hall, or to the person conducting a public dance, or to the police or other authorities having to do A is imam • with regulation or supervision of publio dance halls or public dances to be one of the persons named, or who has such reputation or eharaoter, or one who has pleaded guilty to or has been convicted of being a prostitute, male or female procurer, or vagrant. the word "person" shall mean and include natural persons, copartnerships, corporations, and associations, and shall include both eo (cr " } SECTION 994. Any person desiring a license to keep or conduct a public dance hall or public dance shall make application to the Assessor and Collector of license taxes, who is authorized totJ Issue license and permit only after investigation and .reoommendati.onby a ` ' w.+ dance hall inspector or inspectors. In case the dance hail. i11#peeto shall report adversely on any application, no license or perm;i ihal],' issue:upon such application unless the Board of Commi'ssifners hearing thereon 'shall order stich license and permit to be issued. SECTION 995. Any persoi}.Oriolating any of the provisions [of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, in addition to the revoca- tion of license herein provided for, be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding Two Hundred and Ninety-nine Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period not longer than six months. The court may in imposing fine enter as part of the judgment that in default of the payment of the fine the defendant may be imprisoned in the City Jail for a period not exceeding six months. SECTION 3. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, it is necessary to the health, peace and safety of the in- habitants of said city that this ordinance become effective immediately. SECTION 4. This ordinance shal take effect upon its first publication. \� e r I . Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, July 21rd , 1919. ��f Pomporary Chairman