East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1957-01-31
ORDINANCE No. 5012
By: Mr.. Barton

AN EMERGENCY ORDI-
NANCE TO AMEND SEC
TION 6 OF ORDINANCE NO.
4208, PASSED JANUARY 2,
1948, AND BEIN G THE
DANCE HALL ORDINANCE,
so CALLED, OF THE CITY
OF EAST CLEVELAND; AND
REPEATING ORDINANCE
NO. 1920, PASSED FEBRU-
AIRY z, 1856.
WHEREAS, an emergency exists
for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, property, health
and safety and for the usual daily
operation of municipal department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T OR
DAINED by the Commission of the
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, four
fifths of all members elected thereto
concurring.
SECTION I: That Section 8 of
Ordinance No. 4208, passed Janu-
ary 2, 1948, as amended by Ordi-
nance No. 1920, passed February z,
1856, which section as amended
reads as follows:
"Section 6: 1t shall be unlawful
for any person, persons, firm or cor
poration to hold any public dance
in any other than a licensed hall,
and all dances so held, whether in
a licensed hall or elsewhere, shall be
unlawful unless a permit from the
City Manager therefor shall be first
obtained, and the City Manager may
require that no person, society or
corporation failing to enforce at
such times the requirements made
by statute, ordinance or rules made
governing the conduct of public
dance halls, be granted second per-
nit within six (6) months from the
date of such failure; and any fail
ure or neglect on the part of the
manager or proprietor or persons
in charge of any hall used for pub
lie dances or private dances to Sc
cure and require the proper license
or permit for such dance shall sub
ject such person, firm or corporation
to the penalty provided for a viola
tion of this ordinance. A fee of eight
dollars and seventy five cents
($8.75) per dance shall be paid to
the City Finance Director for each
and every dance so held in pub
lie dance hall, whether public or pri-
vate, and such permit may be is
sued by the Director of Finance,
subject to the approval of the City
Manager, for a period not to ex-
ceed thirty 500 days.
All public dance halls shall be
closed on or before the hour of 1900
o'clock midnight, except that addi-
tional hours may be obtained upon
the application to and approval of
the Chief of the Police Department
and the payment of an additional fee
of one dollar and sixty cents ($1.60)
per hour. The application for addi-
tional hours must be made at the
time when the original application
for a permit is issued"
be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
SECTION 6: 1t shall be unlawful
for any person, persons, firm or cor
poration to hold any public dance in
any other than a licensed hall, and
all dances so held, whether in a
licensed hall or elsewhere, shall be
unlawful unless a permit from the
City Manager therefor shall be first
obtained, and the City Manager may
require that no person, society or
failing to enforce at
such times the requirements made
by statute, ordinance or rules made
the conduct of public
dance halls, be granted second per-
nit within six (6) months from the
date of such failure; and any fail
ure or neglect on the part of the
manager or proprietor or persons in
charge of any hall used for public
dances or private dances to secure
and require the proper license or
permit for such dance shall subject
such person, firm or corporation to
the penalty provided for a violation
of this ordinance. A fee of nine
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