Inglewood Municipal Code § 8-66 Dance Hall Regulation

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or conduct a public dance, public dancing club, or public dance hall, within the City unless there shall be in attendance during all of the time when any public dance shall be operated or conducted, a woman of good moral character, designated in writing by the permittee, and approved by the Chief of Police, and whose duty it shall be to act as matron at such public dance and insist upon the enforcement of the rules required to be posted by the provisions of this Article.

The following regulations governing public dance halls shall be visibly posted within the room or rooms where the dance is being conducted as well as any room used by the public in connection therewith:

It shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) less than 18 years of age to be admitted to a dance hall when not accompanied by a parent or guardian;

(2) to be admitted when intoxicated;

(3) to allow intoxicating beverages to be consumed in a dance hall or in any room used in connection therewith;

(4) to allow any vulgar, suggestive or immoral dancing in a dance hall;

(5) to smoke in a dance hall or room used in connection therewith;

(6) to be admitted to a public dance hall after having been notified of expulsion therefrom by any police officer;

(7) use any profanity or to engage in any boisterous conduct within a dance hall;

(8) to remove or deface any notice posted in accordance with this Section.

It shall be unlawful for any person, as principal, agent, officer or employee, to manage, conduct or carry on, or permit upon any premises owned or controlled by him, any public dance between the hours of 2:00 a.m. of any day and 6:00 a.m. of the same day, and no person shall participate in or be present at any such public dance between said hours of 2:00 a.m. of any day and 6:00 a.m. of the same day.

The Permits and License Committee when it determines that the public interest may not be adversely affected may issue a permit allowing the conduct of a dance at hours other than permitted by the provisions of this Section.

(Ord. 1455 5-12-59)

Any person desiring to conduct a public dance within the City upon a single occasion, shall apply to the Permits and Licenses Committee for a special permit so to do and said Committee may grant or withhold such permit on such terms and conditions as may appear to the Committee not to be detrimental to the public interest.

The provisions of this Article shall not be construed to require any fee for dances held by memorial or fraternal associations, or dances held in connection with patriotic, charitable, or holiday celebrations or festivals where such dances are casual, or for dances conducted upon a single occasion only and which are not conducted more often than once a month.

It shall be unlawful to directly or indirectly pay to the participant of a public dance, or directly or indirectly to permit a participant in a public dance to receive, all or any portion of the fee charged or collected for such dance from any other participant in such dance.

The permittee under a permit for a public dance or dance hall may apply to the Chief of Police for the appointment of a special police officer to be paid by such permittee and to be in constant attendance in such public dance hall, public dancing club or public dance during such times as dances are conducted therein, for the purpose of preserving order and seeing that no violation of any law of the State or ordinance of the City is permitted, but the presence of such special officer at any such public dance, public dancing club or public dance hall shall not relieve the permittee or proprietor thereof, or any of his employees, from responsibility for any violation of any law or ordinance.

In addition to the grounds designated generally for the revocation of permits in this Article, the Permits and Licenses Committee or the City Council may revoke a dance permit whenever it is shown upon satisfactory evidence that the permittee has failed or refused to comply with the provisions of this Section.