Ordinance 331
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ORDINANCE NO. 331
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PUBLIC DANCE HALLS AND
PUBLIC DANCES IN THE CITY OF GILROY, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Gilroy
do ordain as follows:
Section 1. For the purpose of this Ordinance the
words "Public dance hall" is defined to be a place wh~re dancing
is conducted, whether for profit or not for profit, to which the
public is admitted, either with or without charge, and at which
the publ~ is allowed to participate in the dancing.
For the purpose of this Ordinance the words "public
dance" is defined to be a gathering of persons in or upon any
premises where dancing is participated in, or carried on, either
as the main purpose of such gathering, or as an incident to some
other purpose, and to which premises the public is admitted.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, association or corporation to give, conduct~ or carryon
a public dance, or to open or maintain a public dance hall without
first having procured from the Chairman of the police Committee
of the Common Council of the City of Gilroy, a permit in writing
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Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person under
eighteen years of age to enter, be or dance in any.public dance
or dance hall without being accompanied by parent or guardian; it
shall be unlawful for any ~etor or person in charge of any
pUblic dance hall, or person in. charge of, or carrying on any
public dance to permit any person under the age of eighteen y~ars
unaccompanied by parent or guardian, to be or remain in any public
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dance hall or to dance at or participate in any public dance.
Section 4. All public dance halls shall close at
one o'clock A. M., and it shall be unlawful for any person to
permit any public dance hall to remain open or to conduct or carry
on or assist in conducting or carrying on any public 4ance between
the hours of one o'clock A. M. and eight o'clock A. M.
section 5. All public dance halls or places where
public dances are held must at all times when open for danc~
therein be brightly ligh~ed throughout and the volume of illimin-
ation must not vary during the time such dance hall or public dance
is open to the 'public.
Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to
take any form of alcoholic liquor into any premises where a
public dance is being held, and it shall be unlawful for any
person in charge, or assisting in the conduct of any public dance
hall, or any public dance, to permit any person having any alcohol-
ic liquor in his possession therein, and it &hall be unlawful for
any person to be or remain therein, who has any form of alclll).olic
liquor in his possession, or to permit any intoxicated, boisterous
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or disorderly person to enter, be, or remain in, or to assist
in any such public dance hall or public dance; and it shall be
unlawful for any person in an intoxicated condition to enter, or
remain in, any public dance hall or public dance, or for any
person to conduct himself in a boisterous or disorderly manner in
a public dance hall or public dance.
section 7. Any person, firm, association or cor-
poration who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding one h~dred dollars, or im-
prisonment .in the c'c'1tr.J Jail not exceeding t nt.r "3* (i<la,.' or by'
both such fine and imprisonment.
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Section 8. This Or.dinance shall take effect and be in
force thirty days after its passage and approval.
Adopted and passed by the Mayor and Common Council
of the City of Gilroy this 3r(1
day otB....DeF, 1924, by the
following vote, viz:
c. H. Pierce, R. nrem, Sr. C. ~.
Ayes, Councilmen Fredrickson, Wm. Radtke, Chas. W.
Schem,e 1 ;
Noes, Councilmen Hone;
Absent, Councilmen Gerald Hecker.
Approved this3rd d
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