Administrative Regulations on Places of Entertainment
Administrative Regulations on Places of Entertainment
Administrative Regulations on Places of Entertainment
Order of the State Council of the People's Republic of China [1999] No. 261
March 26, 1999
The Administrative Regulations on Places of Entertainment, which was adopted at the 15th executive meeting of the State Council on March 17, 1999, is released hereby and shall take effect as of July 1, 1999.
Premier Zhu Rongji
Appendix: Administrative Regulations on Places of Entertainment
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated for the purpose of strengthening control over places of entertainment, enriching the civilized and healthy recreational life of people, and promoting the construction of the socialist spiritual civilization.
Article 2 Places of entertainment mentioned in these Regulations refer to commercial music and dancing, recreational and other places open to the public for consumers' self-entertainment and recreation.
Article 3 A public place of entertainment business unit shall adhere to the orientation of serving the people and serving socialism and developing civilized and healthy recreational activities.
Article 4 The State advocates the development of fine traditional culture of the Chinese nation and prohibits conducting in places of entertainment activities having any of the following contents:
1. contravening the fundamental principles defined in the Constitution;
2. endangering the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the State:
3. endangering the security, interests and social stability of the State;
4. instigating ethnic separation, infringing on the customs or habits of ethnic minority groups and undermining the unity among ethnic groups;
5. propagating obscenity, pornography, feudal superstition or playing up violence that harms the physical and mental healthy of consumers; or
6. violating social ethics or slandering and humiliating others.
Article 5 The administrative departments of culture and the public security organs of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, within the scope of their respective duties and responsibilities, strengthen guidance and supervision over the business activities, fire prevention and public security in the public place of entertainment according to the stipulations of these Regulations.
Article 6 The administrative departments of culture and the public security organs of the people's government at all levels and their functionaries shall not run any public place of entertainment, nor participate, or participate in a disguised form, in any business activities of such places of entertainment.
Article 7 Functionaries of the administrative departments of culture and the public security organs who are performing official duties in places of entertainment shall produce their law enforcement certificates, be civilized and courteous and abide by the law.
The administrative departments of culture and the public security organs shall not charge any fees in conducting supervision and inspection over places of entertainment in accordance with these Regulations. The expenses needed by the competent administrative departments of culture to carry out supervision and inspection over places of entertainment may be resolved with local finances through the adjustment of the business tax rate of the entertainment industry according to law and the specific measures shall be stipulated by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
Chapter II Establishment of A Public Place of Entertainment Business Unit
Article 8 In establishing a public place of entertainment business unit, the following conditions shall be met:
1. having a unit name, domicile, organization and articles of association;
2. having a clearly-defined scope of business and entertainment items;
3. possessing a place, equipment and devices commensurate with the entertainment items to be provided; and
4. having security, fire-prevention facilities and hygiene conditions up to the standards prescribed by the State for a public place of entertainment.
Article 9 No public place of entertainment shall be established at a location where the order of normal study and work of schools, hospitals and organs may be disrupted.
The noise in the vicinity of a public place of entertainment must conform to the standards prescribed by the State.
Article 10 The following persons shall not act as the legal representative or person in charge of the business unit of a public place of entertainment, nor participate in its business and management activities;
1. those who were punished with fixed-term imprisonment for committing crimes of rape, of molesting or humiliating women with force, of organizing forcing, seducing, sheltering or procuring any other person or persons to engage in prostitution, of gambling, of producing, selling, or disseminating obscene materials, or of smuggling, trafficking, transporting and manufacturing drugs; and
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