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[Adopted by Ord. No. 8-1997 (Ch. 5.12 of the 1996 Municipal Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AMUSEMENT PARK
Any place of amusement operated upon a lot or plot of ground in the open air, permanent in its nature, and operated by private enterprise for profit and/or not for profit during this entire year or any part thereof, whether admission is charged to enter or not.
TRAVELING CARNIVAL
An amusement show made up of amusement rides, food, games, animal acts, rides, and sideshow curiosities that is transient in nature and moves from town to town.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A. 
No person shall operate any amusement park, theater for plays or moving pictures, dancehall, show, exhibit, performance for gain or reward, play, concert of music, dancing, game, trick, juggling, sleight of hand, acrobatics, circuses, theatricals, moving pictures or other amusement of any description or any show which displays or uses any beast, bird menagerie or any curiosity of nature or art, without first obtaining a license for that purpose.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
B. 
No person having the possession or care of any building or premises within the City shall permit any such amusement to be carried on upon his/her premises for any price, gain or reward without a license.
The Municipal Clerk shall, if he/she deems it proper to do so, issue an amusement license upon application, pursuant to the provisions of § 213-2, and the payment in advance of the license fee.
All licenses shall contain information as set forth in § 213-2.
The majority of the members of the City Council may, at any time, revoke the license for any cause which appears to them sufficient reason for so doing, in which case the license fees received shall be retained by the City. All licenses issued hereunder shall be conditioned upon this provision.
A. 
Immediately upon collection, the license fee shall be paid to the City Treasurer who shall give a receipt therefor. A list of all licenses with the amount received for each shall be presented to the Council at the next regular meeting after the issuance thereof.
B. 
Fees for amusement licenses for each year or fraction thereof shall be as set forth in Chapter 146, Fee Schedule.
No license shall be issued to any traveling carnival.
A. 
Exempt organizations. Baseball, football and basketball games, entertainments or lecture courses by civic bodies and fire companies of the City and entertainments or lecture courses, the expense of which are guaranteed by residents of the City, are excepted from the requirements of this article.
B. 
Charitable or religious organizations. This article shall not apply to any of the amusements enumerated when the net proceeds are for the benefit of any charitable or religious organization located within the City or when given by the pupils of any school in the City, for the benefit of any kind, to be used for educational purposes of any school or any subdivision thereof.