A. Any person desiring to operate, conduct or maintain a public dancehall within the city shall first secure a license therefor from the city.

B. Application for the license shall be made in writing to the city clerk, and the application shall set forth the name of the applicant, the location of the dancehall, the hours of operation of the dancehall and any other information pertaining to the dancehall. The application shall be accompanied by a license fee of two hundred sixty dollars.

C. The application, upon receipt by the city clerk, shall be referred by the clerk to the chief of police. The chief of police shall investigate the matters set out in the application, and if in his opinion the character of the applicant, or his employees or the nature of the location of the dancehall or the hours of operation of the dancehall, or any other information contained in the application are such that the operation of such dancehall would be detrimental to the public health, safety, morals or welfare, he shall endorse the application as rejected, otherwise the application shall be endorsed as approved. The chief of police shall thereupon return the application as endorsed to the city clerk.

D. If, but only if, the application is endorsed approved, the clerk shall issue to the named applicant a public dancehall license. In the event any such application is denied, the license fee of two hundred sixty dollars shall be returned to the applicant.

E. The license shall expire upon the thirty-first of December immediately following the granting of the same.

F. In no event shall any such license be granted for use upon property the exterior boundaries of which are located three hundred feet or nearer to the exterior boundaries of any property which is occupied at the time of the application for the license exclusively for residential purposes. (Prior code § 7-3).