Chung Mee Restaurant Co. v. Healy

The above enactments are not designed for the production of revenue for the state or municipality. The statute is designed to regulate the conduct of persons who attend public dances; the ordinance, to regulate the places where such functions are held.

Only two questions are here presented. First, have the state and municipality authority to regulate such matters, and, second, is the sort of function which the petitioner proposes to conduct within the meaning of the enactments? We are of the opinion that both of these questions must be answered in the affirmative.

Under the police power the…