No person, firm, corporation or combination of persons having charge
or control of any building or vacant lot in the Town of Bethlehem or any part
thereof, either as owner, lessee, agent or otherwise, shall use or allow any
other person, firm, corporation or combination of persons to use such building
or any part thereof or any such vacant lot as a place of public amusement,
theater, public golf course, public golf driving field, public miniature golf
course or green, public tennis court, public bowling green or alley, public
poolroom, public rifle range or shooting gallery, racetrack, merry-go-round,
toboggan slide, public garden or for the giving of any concert, theatrical,
dramatic or musical entertainment, including opera, ballet, farce or minstrel,
or for giving of dancing or other entertainments of the stage or any part
or parts therein, or any equestrian circus or any other kind of circus or
dramatic performance or exhibition of any kind, whether an admission fee is
charged or not, nor shall any person or persons keep or operate any hall or
other place for rent or use for dances or balls, except a hall or place used
exclusively as a school or academy for instruction in dancing, unless a license
therefor is duly obtained in the manner herein specified. Nothing herein contained
shall apply to the use of church meeting rooms, public school auditoriums,
public or private golf courses or clubs, Masonic or other fraternal meeting
rooms or any fire company or to the activities of any fire company from which
the fire company derives a direct financial benefit, or to any performance,
show or exhibition given for the benefit of any religious, educational, patriotic,
veteran or eleemosynary society.
All places of public amusement or for which a license shall be issued
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall close their places
at 12:00 midnight and remain closed until 7:00 a.m. of the following day,
and all such places shall be closed and remain closed from 12:00 midnight
Saturday night until 7:00 a.m. the following Monday, and no business, performance
or activity licensed under this chapter shall be held or conducted for any
purpose or in any manner, with or without hire or compensation, from 12:00
midnight Saturday until 7:00 a.m. the following Monday, excepting that bowling
alleys and theaters for which a license shall have been issued may open their
doors to the public for entertainment on Sunday between the hours of 2:00
p.m. and 11:00 p.m. and that baseball may be played in the parks of the said
Town between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Sunday.