5.26.240 Youth dances – Purpose and intent of provisions – Definitions.
It is the intent of the City Council to prescribe procedures for the licensing and regulation of public youth dances. It is the purpose of the Council by means of these regulations to control youth dances and encourage orderly and well-supervised social activities in the interest of public health, safety, and morality. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases are defined and shall be construed as set out in this section, unless it shall be apparent from the context that they have a different meaning:
B. “Adult sponsoring group” means a nonprofit organization whose primary object is to sponsor, regulate and control youth activities, and which assumes full and complete responsibility for the direction of a youth dance, the receipts or contributions from which are to be expended only for future dances or the promotion of other youth activities.
C. “Board” means the City Parks and Recreation Commission duly appointed by the Council.
D. “Police officer” includes any private police officer properly licensed by the state and approved by the Chief of Police, or any peace officer, whether on duty or off duty, reserve deputy or special deputy, employed by any public agency or political subdivision.
E. “Private youth dance” means a closed dance for members of an organization and their invited guests.
F. “Youth” means any Person of Junior high school or senior high school age.
G. “Youth dance” means a dance held or conducted exclusively for youth unaccompanied by parents or guardians.
H. “Youth service organization” includes any bona fide organization whose primary purpose is to provide moral or spiritual development, education or recreation for young people. (Ord. 1672 § 2, 1976).