1935 (#1005-1026) - Laserfiche WebLink

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the City of Santa Ana shall permit any person or persons to dance with their cheeks or heads touching; or to permit any person to indulge in boisterous conduct or use profanity, or otherwise conduct himself or herself in a vulgar or indecent manner in such oublic dance hall or in any of the hallways leading thereto, or any room used in connection therewith or while near said dance hall; or to permit any person or persons to dance any passion dance, lewd or suggestive dance, indecent dance, vulgar dance or sensual dance, or permit any known prostitute or any known mail or female procurer, Or known vagrant, or other known or dissolute person or any person known to have plead guilty or to have bee: convicted within the period of one year of being a vagrant or a lewd or dissolute person, or any intoxicated person, to be present in any public dance hall or at any public dance. It shall be unlawful for any person to commit any of the acts herein mentioned as not permitted. .~ECTION 9. Every person seeking admission to a public dance hall or to any public dance, shall upon the request of the manager, proprietor or door- keeper or managing agent of the proprietor of such public dance hall or oublic dance, register his or her true name, age and address in his or her ov~ handwriting. SECTION 10. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apoly to any dance or ball given, held or conducted by any bonafide club, society or assoc- iation organized or incorporated for benevolent, charitable, dramatic or literary purposes, having an established membership of persons regularly elected or admitted thereto, and which shall hold meetings, other than such balls or dances, at regularly stated intervals, when the proceeds arising from such ball or dance shall be intended to be used for the promotion of the purposes of such club, society or association, or to any private dance or ball, held or conducted for social purposes only and not for profit, to which persons are admitted or at which persons are allowed to dance without the payment of a fee or charge therefor, except such as may be required for the purpose of defraying the actual expenses of holding or conducting such dance or ball; provided, however, that the provisions of this ordinance shall apply to any dance or ball other than a dance or ball of the character hereinbefore in this section referred to, when invitations or tickets for admission to such dance or ball are sold or offered for sale publicly, or to the public generally. SECTION ll. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be ounishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred (~100.00) dollars or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding fifty (50) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and upon such conviction any permit which may have been granted to such person, firm or corporation, to conduct, maintain or carry on any public dance hall, shall be rendered void ipso facto, and shall be revoked by the said Council, as hereinbefore provided, without the hearing and notice specified in Section 2 hereof. SECTION 12. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the Orange County Reporter, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated