This chapter is an exercise of police power for the protection of the public welfare, health and safety of those children that attend and patronize dancehalls. The city council finds and declares that the problems of runaway children, drug abuse and abuse of children are pervasive and of such magnitude that they are a matter of city concern and are contributed to by unregulated dancehalls. This chapter is intended to regulate dancehalls that admit persons under the age of 18 in order to address the above referenced problems and to diminish the negative impact of unregulated dancehalls thereon. (Ord. 3547 § 2, 1985.)