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1 ORDINANCE ______________
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BURBANK AMENDING SUBSECTION D AND REPEALING
SUBSECTION E OF BURBANK MUNICIPAL CODE
SECTION 3-3-523 RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR
PUBLIC DANCES; POSTING.
City Attorney’s Synopsis
This Ordinance amends the City’s public dance regulations set forth in Burbank Municipal Code Section 3- 3-523 by deleting prohibitions that apply to a person’s gender. The purpose of this Ordinance is to ensure the Burbank Municipal Code is consistent with affording equal protection of current state and federal laws.
The Council of the City of Burbank does ordain as follows:
I. Burbank Municipal Code Section 3-3-523 is hereby amended to read as follows:
3-3-523: RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PUBLIC DANCES; POSTING:
Every person holding a permit to operate a public dance issued under Section 3- 3-512 of this article shall keep the following rules and regulations, and such supplemental rules and regulations as may be recommended by the City Manager and adopted by resolution of the Council, posted immediately adjacent to the permit in a conspicuous place in open and clear view:
A. Dancing is prohibited after two o’clock (2:00) A.M. on Sunday and between two o’clock (2:00) A.M. and eleven o’clock (11:00) A.M. on any other day; B. The room, hall or other place where dining and dancing are permitted shall be kept well and adequately lighted with uniform intensity at all ti mes and with minimum light of three (3) foot candles, thirty (30) inches from the floor, and all places where dancing is permitted shall be open and in clear view; C. No vulgar, obscene, suggestive, marathon or endurance dancing shall be permitted;
D. No person shall pay or receive any fee or remuneration to be a dancing partner.
This provision shall not apply to professional paid entertainers when performing as such;
E. No person under the influence of alcoholic beverages shall be admitted or permitted to remain in or upon the premises;
F. Boisterous or disorderly conduct or the use of profanity is prohibited; G. Smoking on the floor area used for dancing is prohibited; ATTACHMENT 1
2 H. Dancing shall be limited to bona fide patrons; and I. No permittee shall serve, or permit to be served, any drinks other than individual drinks, or serve, or permit to be served, cracked ice in glasses or otherwise, or serve, or permit to be served, what is commonly termed “setups”. [Formerly numbered Section 5-57; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2395.] II. This Ordinance shall become effective at 12:01 a.m. on the thirty-first (31 st) day
after the date of adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this __ day of ____________, 2022.
Jess A. Talamantes
Mayor
Attest: Approved as to Form:
Office of the City Attorney
By:
Zizette Mullins, MMC, City Clerk Joseph H. McDougall, City Attorney
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3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF BURBANK )
I, Zizette Mullins, MMC, City Clerk of the City of Burbank, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No.______ was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Burbank at its regular meeting held on the day of , 2022, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
I further certify that said Synopsis was published as required by law in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Burbank, California within 14 days following of the ordinance’s adoption on _____________________.
Zizette Mullins, MMC, City Clerk