Ordinance - 617v
ORDINANCE NO. 617
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA REGULATING DANCING IN PLACES WHERE
LIQUOR IS SOLD.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. CABARET DANCE. For the purposes of this ordi-
nance, "cabaret dance" is any dance or dancing held or engaged in at
any place or premises licensed by the State of California to sell,
serve or dispense intoxicating liquor for consumption in or at such
place or premises.
SECTION 2. PERMIT REQUIRED. No person shall conduct or
assist in conducting any cabaret dance in the City, except under a
written permit from .the Chief of Police. The Chief of Police may,
subject to the right of appeal to the City Council by any person
aggrieved, grant or refuse to grant such permit. Such permit shall be
refused if the proposed activity would be contrary or detrimental to
the public peace, health, safety, morals or general welfare.
SECTION 3. REVOCATION OF PERMITS. The City Council may
at any time revoke any permit issued under this ordinance if the
conduct of such cabaret dance does not or will not comport with the
public welfare for any reason, or the same has been conducted in any
illegal, improper or disorderly manner or contrary to any rule adopted
by the City Council governing the conduct thereof. No such permit
shall be revoked unless, after notice, a hearing be first given to the
permittee.
SECTION 4. CABARET DANCES. No person shall conduct, hold
or engage in a cabaret dance or cabaret dancing unless all of the follow-
ing conditions are at all times complied with:
(a) The dance floor shall be a minimum size of two
hundred square feet.
(b) The dance floor area shall be plainly marked and
designated as a dancing area. No dancing shall be permitted in the
premises except upon the dancing area thus marked and designated.
(c) During all hours during which dancing is permitted by
the permit issued hereunder for the premises, no portion of the dancing
area shall be used for any purpose other than dancing and entertainment.
(d) No portion of any dance floor shall be located within
ten feet of any bar or other facility for dispensing of intoxicating
beverages. �
(e) The maximum number of persons, other than employees
employed to render help or service on the premises, shall not at any
one time exceed the number of permanent seats provided for the patrons
of the establishment, plus that number of persons equal to the quotient
of the remaining square foot area of usable floor space of -the premises
divided by fifteen. In computing usable floor area all portions of
the premises designed or intended primarily for the use of or princi-
pally used by the employee of the premises, and all exit passageways
and corridors, shall be excluded.
SECTION 5. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. No o
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or assisting in the conductcf a cabaret dance shall permit any person
to enter into, to be in or to remain in any place where such cabaret
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dance is conducted, who is intoxicated, boisterous, or disorderly. No
person in an intoxicated condition shall enter, be in or remain in a
cabaret dance. No person shall conduct himself in a boisterous or
disorderly manner in or at a cabaret dance.
SECTION 6. EMPLOYEE DANCING PROHIBITED. No employee of
any person conducting or in charge of any cabaret dance shall engage
in dancing with any other person at such cabaret dance.
SECTION 7. UNSOCIAL DANCING. No person shall dance with
any person of the same sex atany cabaret dance.
SECTION 8. DANCES. HOURS. No cabaret dance or cabaret
dancing shall be held or engaged in between the hours of 1:45 a.m. and
6:00 p.m. of any day.
SECTION.9. CABARETS. CLUBS PROHIBITED. No premises at
which cabaret dances or cabaret dancing are conducted or are engaged
In shall be used or operated as a private club between the hours of 1:45 a.m.
and 6:00 p.m. of any day.
SECTION 10. INDECENT PERFORMANCE PROHIBITED. No person,
whether entertainer, employee, patron, or guest, at any.cabaret dance,
shall directly or indirectly conduct or participate in any entertainment
or performance in which is spoken or sung any obscene or indecent words
or in which any lewd or indecent act is performed.
SECTION 11. STRIP -TEASE ACT PROHIBITED. No person shall,
at any cabaret dance, in the course of any entertainment participated in by
him, as a performer, remove from his person any article of clothing
other than a hat, coat, necktie, gloves or shoes.
SECTION 12. IMPERSONATION PROHIBITED. No person, whether
customer, entertainer, or otherwise, shall at any cabaret dance impersonate,
by means of costume or dress, a person of the opposite sex, i
SECTION 13. B-GIRLS PROHIBITED. No employee at any place
where liquor is sold shall acceptor solicit for himself drinks of
alcoholic beverages from any customer at the place where he is employed.
SECTION 14. PENALTY. Any person, firm or corporation
violating any provision of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine
of not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail
or County Jail of the County of Los Angeles for not to exceed six months,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 15. ATTESTATION. The City Clerk shall certify to
the passage of this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by
law.
Passed and approved this 9th day of February 1959.
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF NEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 617 was -regularly Intro-
duced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 26th day of January1959, That, thereafter, said
ordinance was dummy adopted and —passe at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 9th day of February, 1959, by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen:- Heath, Brown, Barnes, Pittenger, Mayor Mottinger
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None 7
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