Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 54253. License;  termination;  fees

From and after the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, it shall be unlawful to hold or conduct any public dance or public ball, or to hold or conduct classes in dancing, or to give instructions in dancing for hire, in any hall, ballroom or academy within the limits of any township within this Commonwealth, unless the dance hall or ballroom or academy in which the same may be held shall have been duly licensed for such purposes.

Application for such license shall be made by the proprietor of such dance hall or ballroom or academy to the county treasurer of the county wherein such township is situate, who is hereby authorized to issue the same.

The fee payable for each license granted hereunder shall be as follows:

In the case of dance halls maintained and conducted in connection with regularly established instruction in dancing, and exclusively used in such connection, the annual license fee shall be ten dollars.

In the case of all other dance halls and ballrooms, the annual license fee shall be ten dollars.

Each license granted hereunder shall expire on the first day of June of each year.

The fee payable for each license granted hereunder shall be for the whole or any portion of a calendar year and all moneys received by way of license fees hereunder shall be paid into the general fund of the county.

Every licensed public dance hall or ballroom or academy shall post its license in a conspicuous place within the hall where the dance is held.