§ 9:965. Security personnel.

(a)

As a condition for maintaining the teen dance club license, the licensee shall employ or retain a sufficient force of adequately trained security personnel at all times when the teen club is open for business. For purposes of this section, adequately trained personnel include security guards employed by a bonded, licensed, and insured private security company, off-duty law enforcement officers with a current POST certification, or individuals with comparable military training, such as military police, shore patrol, or other security details. The guards on duty must be able to demonstrate their qualifications by reliable identification and/or paperwork upon demand by city-parish inspectors or law enforcement agents. The minimum number of security personnel to be on duty shall be determined by taking the fire marshal's maximum occupancy listed for the building, dividing by fifty (50), rounding up, and adding at least four (4) guards.

(b)

All security personnel shall be disclosed in accordance with the requirements of sections 9:962(a)(3) and 9:964.

(c)

The licensee shall post at least two (2) members of its security personnel in the teen club's parking area at all times while the club is open, and for at least thirty (30) minutes after official closing time (in accordance with section 9:969), prior to the start of curfew as described in section 13:1056 et seq., or such earlier time as the club operators choose, provided that such times will be clearly posted inside and outside of the club.

(d)

The licensee shall post at least one (1) member of its security personnel in the teen club's waiting area (as defined in section 9:967) at all times while the club is open.

(Ord. No. 15034, § 1, 11-23-10)