Fontana Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Disturbance of the peace means disturbing the peace as it is defined and set forth in Penal Code § 415.

Public dance or dancehall means any public place, open to the public, wherein or whereat the public may engage in dancing, including places and dances where admission thereto is by membership or other special privilege.

(Code 1968, § 4-1)

Cross reference— Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, conduct or carry on a public dance or a public dancehall, or for any person to dance at any public dance or in any public dancehall, between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.

(Code 1968, § 4-9)

It shall be unlawful for any person to employ female persons at a salary or on a commission, or for anything of value, directly or indirectly, whose duty or business it is or shall be to dance with or act as dancing partners at any public dance or in any public dancehall, or for any female person to engage in such employment.

(Code 1968, § 4-10)

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, conduct or carry on a public dance or a public dancehall in such a manner where obscene live conduct occurs. Obscene live conduct means any physical human body activity, whether performed or engaged in alone or with other persons, including but not limited to singing, speaking, dancing, acting, simulating, or pantomiming, taken as a whole, which to the average person, applying contemporary statewide standards, appeals to the prurient interest and is conduct which, taken as a whole, depicts or describes in a patently offensive way sexual conduct and which, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

(Code 1968, § 4-11; Ord. No. 1086, § 19, 8-17-93)

Except in places where intoxicating liquors are legally sold and consumed, no person shall have, possess or consume intoxicating liquors at any public dance.

(Code 1968, § 4-12)