After a nearly 50-year-old Metro code requiring permits to dance at venues in Music City nearly kept students from awkwardly stepping in circles at a prom at Nashville’s all-ages venue Rocketown this spring, Metro Councilman Dave Rosenberg wrote a resolution to do away with the archaic law. The same law required bars that played music (so, bars, basically) to pay the Metro Beer Board if the bars wanted to allow dancing. The dance-permit code itself was almost as old as Metro: It was voted on by the Metro Council in 1969 and signed off on by Metro Nashville’s first mayor, Beverly Briley. Now you can dance at Duke’s without fear! AMANDA HAGGARD
Best Stupid City Law That’s Off the Books
No More Dance Permits
