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.... CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE N0.2006 - 48 BY: Mayor O'Grady and the Entire City Council AN ORDINANCE CREATING NEW CHAPTER 763 (PUBLIC DANCE HALLS; TEEN DANCE CLUBS) OF THE NORTH OLMSTED CODIFIED ORDINANCES IN ORDER TO REGULATE DANCE HALLS AND TEEN DANCE CLUBS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, AS AMENDED. WHEREAS, over the course of the last two years, the North Olmsted police department has on numerous occasions been called to respond to a business establishment in the City that holds weekly teen dances; and WHEREAS, these teen dances have attracted youths from a 30 mile radius outside of North Olmsted and have generated a multitude of arrests for violations of many State and local laws, including assault, disorderly conduct, underage possession, underage consump+~~n, possession of marijuana, felony drug trafficking, felony vandalism, excessive noise, curfew violations, and public indecency; and WHEREAS, such incidents threaten the health and safety of children in the North Olmsted community, as well as place a severe strain upon the safety resources of the City; and WHEREAS, this Council believes that reasonable regulation of dance halls and teen dance clubs will protect and promote the health, safety and welfare of teenage children in the North Olmsted community, and will serve to relieve some of the said strain upon the resources of the City's police and fire departments, so that ultimately the City may more effectively serve all of the residents and business owners of North Olmsted; and WHEREAS, it is accordingly the desire of this Council to establish reasonable business regulations that directly addresses the problems that the City has found exist in the City as a result of the operations of unregulated teen dances at business establishments; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, STATE OF OHIO: SECTION 1: That there be and hereby is created new Chapter 763 (Public Dance Halls; Teen Dance Clubs) of the North Olmsted Codified Ordinances, which, as created, shall read as is set forth in Exhibit A attached to this Ordinance and hereby incorporated into this Ordinance as if fully rewritten herein. SECTION 2: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances or resolutions that are inconsistent or in conflict with any of the provisions of newly created Chapter 763 are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict only.