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CHAPTER 763 Public Dance Halls; Teen Dance Clubs 763.01 Findings; Purpose 763.02 Definitions 763.03 Public Dance Halls; No License Required 763.04 Teen Dance Clubs; License Required 763.05 Exemptions from License Requirement 763.06 Application for License; Receipt and Posting 763.07 Information Required on Application 763.08 Investigation of License Application 763.09 License Application Denials 763.10 Procedures Regarding Denials, Suspensions or Revocations of Licenses; Appeals 763.11 License Fees; Expiration Date; Renewals 763.12 Transfer of Licenses 763.13 Regulations applicable to Public Dance Halls and Teen Dance Clubs 763.14 Additional Regulations applicable to Teen Dance Clubs 763.15 Location Prohibitions 763.16 Compliance with Health, Building and Fire Regulations 763.17 Access to Safety Forces Permitted 763.18 Severability Clause 763.99 Violations; Penalties; Other City Remedies CROSS REFERENCES 763.01 FINDINGS; PURPOSE. Ohio Revised Code Section 715.61 provides for municipal corporations to regulate dance halls. This Council has found, as more fully set forth in the preamble to Ordinance No. 2006-48, that there is a need to regulate dance halls, and specifically teen dance clubs, in the City of North Olmsted in order to protect and preserve the health and safety of teenagers under the age of 18 in the City of North Olmsted. The purpose of this Code is to regulate dance halls and teen dance clubs in order to prevent indecency, disorder, violence, and other harm; to preserve peace and good order and to suppress vice; and to protect against fire and other dangers. In addition, it is the purpose of this Code to promote the health, safety and welfare of teenagers by allowing teen dance clubs, but making such clubs off-limits to older persons who may pose a risk of danger to teenagers. 763.02 DEFINITIONS. (a) "Public dance", as used in this chapter, means any dance to which admission maybe had by payment of a fee or by the purchase, possession or presentation of a ticket or token obtained for money or any valuable thing; or in which a charge is made for caring for clothing or other property; or dance where a permanently organized society, club, firm, organization or corporation leases, rents or collects a fee for the use of any room, place or space; or any other dance to which the public generally may gain admission with or without the payment of a fee. "Public dances" do not include "Private dances" as defined below. (b) "Public dance hall", as used herein, means any room, place or space in which a public dance shall be held or any hall in which instruction in dancing is given for hire. Public dance halls do not include Teen dance clubs as defined below.