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~:: 763.16 COMPLIANCE WITH HEALTH, BUILDING AND FIRE REGULATIONS. No public dance hall shall operate a public dance and no teen dance club shall be licensed to operate a teen dance until it is found that such hall or club complies with and conforms to all ordinances and to all health, building and fire regulations of the City; that it is property ventilated and supplied with sufficient toilet conveniences, and is a safe, sanitary and proper place for the purpose for which it is to be used. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this section, all initial and renewal applications for teen dance club licenses shall be endorsed by the City Building Commissioner and the Chief of the Fire Division, that such building complies with the rules of their several departments before a license shall be issued as provided herein. 763.17 ACCESS TO SAFETY FORCES PERMITTED. For purposes of enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter, teen dance club license holders, and all owners and operators of public dance halls and teen dance clubs, shall permit on duty members of the North Olmsted Police, Fire and Building Departments, as a condition to retaining their license and/or lawfully conducting their business in the City of North Olmsted, to have access during all hours of operation of said public dance halls and teen dance clubs to all rooms, spaces and areas therein that are open to the public. 763.18 SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. If for any reason one or more sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or other parts of this Chapter are held by any court to be illegal, unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such holding or judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this Chapter, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or other parts of the Chapter held or adjudged invalid, and the invalidity of any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, or part of this Chapter in any one or more instances shall not attest or prejudice in any way the validity of this Chapter in any other instance. 763.99 VIOLATIONS; PENALTIES; OTHER CITY REMEDIES (a) Whoever violates any provision of this Chapter shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If the offender has, within a three month period, previously been convicted of any violation of this chapter, then a violation shall be a misdemeanor of the first degree. (b) Except where specified, or otherwise required by law, a culpable mental state is not required to be established for the commission of any offense under this Chapter. Where a culpable mental state is required by law, an offense is committed when the proscribed act is done "knowingly." (c) Any person who operates or causes to be operated a teen dance club without a valid license, or otherwise engages in a pattern or commits a series of violations of this Chapter, shall be subject to a suit for injunction, brought by the Director of Law on behalf of the City of North Olmsted, as well as prosecution for criminal violations and license suspension or revocation. 10