Del Mar Municipal Code Ch. 6.28 Teenage Dance

Without first having obtained an Operations Permit: Teenage Dance, it shall be unlawful for any person to conduct a teenage dance.

(Ord. No. 398)

A. Adult means a person 21 years of age or over.

B. Adult Sponsoring Group means a nonprofit organization which has as one of its objectives, the sponsorship, regulation, and control of youth activities and child welfare, and which agrees to assume full and complete responsibility for the conduct of a teenage dance.

C. Private Teenage Dance means a closed dance for members of an organization and their guests.

D. Police or Policeman means a private police officer, any peace officer, whether on duty or off duty, a reserve deputy or special deputy, employed by any public agency or political subdivision.

E. Teenager is any person 13 or more years of age but under 20 years of age.

F. Teenage Dance means a dance attended by teenage persons, unaccompanied by the teenager's parent or guardian.

G. Youth Service Organization means any bona fide organization whose primary purpose is to provide moral or spiritual development, education, or recreation for teenagers.

H. Club means and includes only corporations or associations created by competent authority, which are the owners, lessees, or occupants of premises operated solely for objects of national, social, fraternal, patriotic, political, or athletic nature, membership in which is by application and for which regular dues are charged, and the advantages of which club belong to members, and the operation of which is not primarily for pecuniary gain.

The City Manager is the issuing authority for the Operations Permit: Teenage Dance.

The applicant shall pay an investigating fee and permit issuing fee as established by resolution of the City Council for the following types of permits:

A. A Class "A" Permit, which is issued for a period of one year for a location where a teenage dance is conducted more than three days or nights in any calendar week.

B. A Class "B" Permit, which is issued for any fiscal year for a location where a teenage dance is not conducted more than three days or nights in any calendar week.

C. A Class "C" Permit, which is required for a teenage dance that is conducted only once at the particular location.

D. A Class "D" Permit which is required where a teenage dance is conducted in a bona fide club.

A. The County Sheriff's Department will determine whether the applicant and the proposed location satisfies the requirements for the issuance of the permit.

B. The applicant must be an adult or an adult sponsoring group.

C. The premises shall be adequately chaperoned and supervised, and shall be adequately lighted at all times during the conduct of the teenage dance. The intensity of illumination shall not be less than one foot candle in all parts of the premises accessible to the participants.

D. All off-street parking facilities made available for participants of the teenage dance shall be adequately lighted and supervised.

E. The applicant shall establish procedures to insure that no teenager admitted to the teenage dance shall be permitted to reenter the premises after leaving the premises.

F. No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, consumed, or be available on the premises, and the applicant shall establish procedures to insure that all persons who have been drinking any alcoholic beverages or who have alcoholic beverages in their possession are denied entrance to the teenage dance.

G. All teenage dances shall be closed and the premises cleared of participants prior to 12:00 midnight.

H. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct themselves in an immoral, obscene manner while on the premises of a teenage dance and it shall be further unlawful to disturb the peace on the premises of a teenage dance.

I. The applicant shall establish procedures to insure that no person 20 years of age or over is admitted to the teenage dance as a participant, except an individual 20 years of age or less may enter as a guest and companion of a teenage participant.

J. The applicant shall establish procedures to insure that no person is allowed to loiter around or about the premises at which the teenage dance is being conducted.

K. The applicant shall insure that at all times during the conduct of the teenage dance, any law enforcement officer or fire department officer shall have free access to the premises for which the permit is issued.

L. The applicant shall employ at least one policeman for every 100 participants with a minimum of one policeman for every exit and entrance, except the applicant may, upon the satisfaction of the County Sheriff's office, dispense with the employment of a policeman where the applicant demonstrates that there will be present a sufficient number of adult persons to maintain order.

M. No teenage dance shall be advertised by the use of any media of public communication until a permit has been issued for such teenage dance.

The provisions of this Chapter do not apply to any teenage dance conducted or sponsored:

A. By any agency or department of any city, political subdivision, school district, or other governmental agency;

B. In a private home in a noncommercial manner; or

C. By any recognized youth service organization for its members and guests only, provided that the number of guests shall not exceed the number of members present.