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Home My WebLink About77 of 1912 - Dance Halls. ROLL CALL • Salt Lake City, Utah,. ',A,--k N..kx.- \ :::- 1911— N VOTING Yes 1 No I move that tri-e•->-x-x--9-x-x.-z.k.---".L1),"k,S-n3--1___.IkCI-A-k-ki\_____ J ve/ Keyser J i Korn s / . , Lawrence • •I ..:'' 1,4-. ,.... .,,..' Morris , / Mr.Chairman . . . .' 0/ I• • .. ': I , RESULT - - le • AN ORDINANCE . An ordinance licensing public dance halls and dancing academies, and regulating the management thereof. • Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah: SECTION 1- It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,asaociation or corporation to manage, conduct or carry on a public dance hall, or public academyin Salt Lake Citywithout first obtaining a I dancing license so to do. SECTION 2. The license fee required for a public dunce hall shall be $10.00 per day, or $400.00 per year if such hall be operated III and managed by the year; for a public dancing academy the license fee shall be $200.00 per year. SECTION 3. Such license fee shall specify the location in which • the public dance hall or public dancing academy is to be conducted, • and the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City shall revoke any such license when it shall appear to the Board that any public dance • hall or public dancing academy so licensed is conducted in an illegal, disorderly or improper manner, or whenever the person, firm, associa- tion or corporation conducting such dance hall or dancing academy has been convicted of a• violation of any of the provisions of this • ordinance. No such license shall be revoked until a hearing shall have been had by the Board of Commissioners in the matter, wthitten notice of which hearing shall be served at least three days prior to the date thereof upon the holder of such license, or hie or its manager or agent. Such notice shall state the ground of complaint against the holder of such license, and the time when and place where such hearing shall be had, and it shall be served by delivering the same personally to the holder of such license, or to his or ite manager or agent. SECTION 4. For the purposes of this ordinance a public dance hall is herebydefined to be a place where a dance is held or e • • dances are held or conducted, to which an invitation to attend/& --- Y 77 > same is extended to the public in general, or which is open to the public in general, and where an admission fee or a fee for dancing is charged or received. A public dancing academy is hereby defined • to be a regularly established place maintained or conducted exclusive-! ly for the purpose of giving instruction in dancing, for which in struction the person, firm, association or corporation maintaining or conducting such academy makes a bona fide selection or choice of the persons to be instructed therein, and contracts specially with each such person for a specified series of lessons in dancing, for which instruction a fee or charge is renu.irod or paid; provided, however, that if any such person receiving instruction be under the age of sixteen years, such contract shall be made with the parent or guardian of such person. • SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, associa- tion or corporation conducting or maintaining a public dance hall or public dancing academy, or having charge or control thereof, to con- duct, carry on or permit any dance or dancing therein between the II' hours of twelve o'clock, midnight of any day of the week other than Saturday, and six o'clock A. M. of the following ktocosigg day, and between. the hours of twelve o'clock, midnight of nay Saturday and li six o'clock A. M. of the following monday. SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to enter, be or remain in any public dance hall at 1 any time when a dance is being carried on.therein, or to dance there- - r in; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation conducting or maintaining a public dance hall to permit any minor under the age of eighteen years to enter, be or remain in such public d.:nce hall or to dance therein at any time while a dance is in pro:Tess or being conducted therein , 4..,t W 1'' 4,` .`6•' / w�,r""& CBa:�._rf"2ro^..._fir�4.,^'k+�,e6. -�-.1 2 afA.,��.s..��,�. Cl."c•°y. c;atc SECT'IOT 7. It shall ny person at any time when a dance or dancing is in progress or being conducted in a blia /1;71 -3- dance hall or public dancing academy, to take or bring into, or to cause or permit to be taken or brought into, or to be drunk in such dance hall or dancing academy, any intoxioatingiquor, or to take or f bring any intoxicating liquor into, or to drink the same in, or to cause or permit intoxicating liquor to be taken into or to bo drunk in any room or place connected with or used in connection with such dance hall or dancing academy, or in any place upon the same premises, or within the same enclosure in which such dance hall or d.iicing academy is situated; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation maintaining or conducting any public dance hall or public dancing academy to allow or permit any intoxicated, boisterous or disorderly person to enter, be, remain in, or dance in v • any such dance hall or dancing academy. • SECTION 8. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, associa- tion or corporation conducting or maintaining a public dance hall or public dancing academy to conduct any dance or dancing in such hail or academyafter sunset of any daylanless such hall or dancing academy be lighted either by gas or electric light, or other means, in such manner and to such e-tent as is usual or customary for lighting halls or rooms of like dimensions in the night time or for public assemblies, before any person is admitted thereto, and before any dance or dancing is commenced therein, and unless such lighting shall be maintained thereafter without diminution and without inter- ruption throughout the entire time while such dance or dancing is in progress end until such dance or dancing is concluded and such hall or academy is cleared and closed. SECTIOTN 9. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, associa- tion or corporation conducting or maintaining a public dancing academy to permit any minor under the age of sixteen years to enter such dancing academy, or to dance or be instructed in dancing therein between the hours of six o'clock P. Li. and twelve o'clock midni t t -4- of any day unless such minor be accompanied by his or her parent or guardian, or by some other adult person authorized in writing, by -- such parent or guardian to accompany such minor, which authorization shall state that such person therein named may accompany such minor to such dancing academy on the date specified therein, and :shall ; tali the 1 a O resideng,e 4 , aer^on executing the sane. It '� ' < 1a1 be e 11, 'o he p i ass ati i . .0 cor aoration i, - 7. nc ctinffi_e aii z - in, dfana4 %derl d ' .orthwith such `r ithorizati moron peroo2 o4!4 r 'itin �. p the Name r` far the is p V.on (the ii eq,Q r e arc r> ,e• f the Police partme r4ieI.iolo - .hitity c e ea to ne ti shall II l •._,o rnl �w or - y son* ,ig i the z:am of air ot. or person to lially such au*orization, and ,h such authorization shall be valid for imOrp than one day. SECTION 10. It shall be unlawful for any person in any public dance hall or dancing academy in Salt Lake City to dance any improper, indecent or obscene dance or dances commonly known and designated as the "Turkey Trot", the "Texas Tommy", the "Grizzly Lear", and other dances of like character; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation conducting or maintaining any public I dance hail or public dancing academy to permit antiperson to dance I, or engage in any improper, indecent or obscene dance as aforesaid. SECTION 11. Any person, firm, association or corporation vio- lating any of the provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than ; 50.00, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. GECTILdT 12. This ordinance shall take offoct on or after the day after its first pub ication. ,/ C(,'- . /t/- ' y // 1 'r "", - ••"- • T.',• ()Lc;4 or 0C"-1-1' '1 11 .,41'10 0 TTC on ECT,T.,:r TT' 7141 ATO- or, TT`J., .0 4;0 '; 171(.1000T, 0 T. 0`;'....,TOG TC Cr-'TTOO 2,17f CS• ' 1'0 j, ...11 0 7.7 . 0 CT,- TIC C !0 c.r1 0.7. CC r: 4 -T] on cj, (JOO "D :I 2-.0 4.Cr I, o 1T TOT. Ti 1'c LO "c.jC 004, 4U fl0ULJ.., C,"1"6 Tr.TT'„ 04"..T;03, ricfCGC 01, 01.),...00TJG Cjl O0 01. O. }JoJJ TC:c G0 C101;571. TIT 'a:T14.: ( .1:0 cr,o7.- 0, T LOOT.' 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