HomeMy WebLinkAbout1668ORDINANCE NO. 1668
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUB-SECTIONS (G) AND (H) OF
SECTION 40 OF ORDINANCE NO. 763 OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO.
THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BER-
NARDINO DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION ONE: That Sub-section (g) of Seotion 40 of
Ordinanoe No. 76) is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(g). Each person, firm, oorporation or association of
persons operating, conduoting and oarrying on any public danoe
hall, danoing olub, dine and dance olub or night club, under the
provisions of this ordinance shall employ, at his or its own ex-
pense, a man to be known and designated as a "Special Polioe Of-
ficer", to be in attendance at any and all times that dancing is
allowed, permitted or conducted at the plaoe for which the lioense
is issued. That said "Special Police Officer" shall keep the peac
at such dances, and shall at all times enforoe all laws applicable
thereto, and shall upon request of the Chief of Police at the City
of San Bernardino make a written report to said Chief respeoting
the operation, conduct and management ot said business. The ap-
pointment of the "Special Polioe Officer" reterred to shall be sub
ject to the approval of the Chief of Police of said City of San
Bernardino, and if approved by him the person so selected shall be
deputized as a "Speoial Police Officer" of said oity. The offioer
so approved and deputized may be removed at said Chiet's pleasure.
He shall be paid :he sum of .4.00 per day by the person, firm,
corporation or association of persons operating, conducting or
carrying on any publio danoe hall, dancing club, dine anddanoe
club or night club requiring his attendance.
Every person, firm, corporation or association of persons
operating, oonduoting or carrying on any public dance club, danoinb
club, dine and dance club or night olub shall seleot and deSignate
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a woman to be known as a "Matron". The person so selected and
designated shall, be subject to the approval of the Chief of Police
It shall be the duty at said "Matron" to generally assist the
"Special Police Officer" in the pertormanoe at his duties, and to
report to him any and all violations of laws that she may observe,
and any and all aots or conduct that occur that are oontrary to
public health, peaoe or morals.
In any oase where the Chief of Police of the City of San
Bernardino shall find that preservation of public peace, health
or morals does not require the attendance ot a "Speoial Polioe Of-
fioer" and/or "Matron" in any dine and dance club or night club,
as tbe same is defined in this ordinanoe, where no alcoholic
beverages are sold or permitted or allowed to be consumed on the
premises, he is, in the exercise at his discretion, authorized to
waive the requirement for the attendanoe at a "Special Police Of-
ficer" and/or "Matron"; provided, that at any time after such a
waiver has been made the Chief at Polioe shall determine that the
publio peace, health or morals require the attendanoe ot a
"Speoial Polioe Offioer" and/or "Matron" he shall so notify suoh
licensee of suoh plaoe of business in writing and thereafter a
"Speoial Police Offioer" and/or "Matron" shall be required to be
in attendance in accordance with the provisions at this ordinance;
and, provided further, that in no case where such a plaoe of
business either sells, or permits or allows the oonsumption of,
alooholic beverages on the premises, shall or is the Chief ot
Polioe authorized to waive the provisions at this ordinanoe re-
quiring the attendance ot a "Special Police Officer" and "Matron".
S~CTION TWO: That Sub-seotion (h) of Seotion 40 ot
Ordinanoe No. 763 is hereby amended to read as tallows:
"(h). It shall be unlawful for any person, oorporation
or assooiation of persons to operate, conduot or carryon a publio
dance, public dance hall, dancins olub, dine and dance olub, or
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night club, between the hours of two o'olock A. M. and eight
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o'clook A. M., of anyone day,provided, however, that the
restriotion herein imposed applies only to the permitting or
allowing the public to dance between suoh hours and is not deemed
to prevent or make unlawful the serving at meals or refreshments
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between suoh hours."
SECTION THREE: This Ordinanoe shall be in force and take
effeot tram and after thirty days after its passage and approval.
SECTION FOUR: The City Clerk shall certify to the pas-
sage ot this Ordinanoe and shall cause the same to be published
three consecutive times in the Ban Bernardino Daily Sun, a daily
newspaper hereby designated for that purpose.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
adopted by the Mayor and Common Counoil of the City of San Ber-
nardino at a regular meeting thereof held on the 3 ~ day ot
'1)~941, by the tollowing vote, t -wit:
Ayes
Noes
I hereby appcrove
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Ordinance
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this ~ day
?f . L~p-~,~
Mayor of the City at San Bernar.ino.
to form.
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