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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 12011924 - 0181 Ordi*nance o. -181 Ordinance Regulating the Opening, Contra Costa, revocable at any time Conducting and Carrying on, of by said Board after issuance, for a Dances in Public Dance Halls or violation of any of the privisions of Other Public Places in the County this ordinance, and in the event of re- of Contra Costa, and Providing for vocation therof, no new permit to con- the issuance of Permits for the Same, duct dances hereunder shall be issued and Providing Penalties for the Vi- by the Board of Superisors, to any per- olation of Any of the Provisions of son, firm, or corporation, whose pre- this Ordinance. vious permit issued herein, has been ---- revoked. No permit shall be issued The Board of Supervisors of the to any person, firm, association or , State of Calif- corporation, unless an application in County of Contra Costa ornia, do ordain as follows. writing shall be filed with the Board Section 1. It shall be unlawful for of Supervisors at least three days pri- any person, firm or corporation to or to the meeting at which said permit open, conduct or carry on, or Io parti- is to be acted upon,and which said ap- cipate in the opening or conducting, or plication shall contain the following carrying on of a dance or dances in information, and be verified under any public dance hall or public ball oath, by the applicant. room, or other public place in the I. Name and residence of the ap- Cou my of Contra Costa, between the pl ica nt or applicants. hours of one o'clock A. M. and nine 2. The particular place where the o'clock A. M., next ensuing, except by public dance for which the permit is and after securing a permit therefore, desired, is to be held. as hereinafter provided, and during 3. The date of the dance to be the continuance of such permit; and held under said permit, and the ad- it shall be unlawful for the holder of mission price to be charged the patrons any such permit, to violate or permit there-of. the violation of any or all of the fol- 4. An agreement to comply with lowing conditions, rules or regulations all conditions, rules and regulations or any part thereof, at or in connec- of this ordinance. tion with any dance, held under such Section 3. Any person, firm, cor- permit, which said rules, conditions poration or association, violating any and regulations are as follows, to-wit: or all of the provisions of this ordi- 1. No dance shall be permitted nance, shall be deemed guilty of a after the hour of three o'clock A. M., misdemeanor and upon conviction and no permit shall be issued therefor. shall be punished by a fine of not more 2. No female under the age of 18 than five hundred ($500.00) Dollars,or years, shall be permitted to attend any by imprisonment in the county jail such dance, unless accompanied by her for a period not exceeding six months, parent or guardian, or some other or by both such fine and imprison- adult person having the care and cus- ment. All ordinances or parts of or- tody of such female. dinances in conflict herewith, are here- 3. No permit issued under this by repealed. ordinance shall be transferable, except Section 4. This ordinance shall take with the consent of the Board of Sup- effect thirty (30) days from and after ervisors. its passage, and before the expiration 4. A printed copy of this ordinance of fifteen (15) days after the pa-esage shall be posted in a conspicuous place thereof it shall be published with the on the front door of every dance hall, names of the members voting for and ball room or other public place at all against the same for at least one week times during the holding of any dance in some newspaper published in the therein. county. 5. No person under the influence Passed and adopted this 1st day of of intoxicating liquor shall be permit- December, 1924. ted to enter or to remain in any public Ayes: Supervisors Zeb Knott, Oscar dance hall or any place where any Olsson, C. H. Hayden, W. J. Buchan- dance is being conducted. under a an and R. J. Trembath. permit issued under the provisions of Noes: Supervisors None. this ordinance. Absent: Supervisors, None. Section 2. Permits for conducting W. J. BUCHANAN, dances after one A. M. under the pro- Chairman visions hereof, shall be issued by the Attest: Board of Supervisors of the County of J. H. WELLS, County Clerk.