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We had an ordinance on the books since 199 which set a minimum age of 18. Now, that ordinance has not been enforced since last april when they were arrests made under the ordinance and the District Attorney's office declined to prosecute. Uh now we do have an

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ordinance regulating public dances. The second thing that the ordinance does is to establish administrative machinery for enforcement by providing for suspension or revocation of licenses for violations of the ordinance. I hope they voted this way because hopefully some of them have been there mainly, I think

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because they've allowed the people of san Francisco who would go to these establishments to prove to them that peoples of all ages can get together and have a good time. It's as simple as that supervisor francois SAn Francisco has a new dance ordinance for teenagers today.

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What does it mean if the city has been able to operate since april without an ordinance and not had any trouble? Why was it so hard to get this ordinance passed? There were those who felt that persons under 18 should not be permitted to attend. There

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were those who felt that the aid should be reduced to 16 to deal more risk realistically with the situation we faced in modern times, there were suggestions of having separate dances for teenagers under a certain age. There were suggestions of having a curfew for persons under

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certain ages. The committee considered all of these proposals and and concluded that, and at least the board concluded that a more realistic approach was to reduce the age that are now seemingly archaic, which are to find out how strong you are, or to find out how

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handsome and virile you are okay.