[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Old
Westbury 10-4-1937 as Ch. 1, Art. XVII, of the General
Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No parade or exhibition shall take place in or upon the streets of the
Village without a permit from the Mayor.
No person shall, for money or hire, exhibit or conduct or maintain any
dance hall, carousel or merry-go-round, skating rink, bowling alley, billiard
or pocket hilliard room or shooting gallery or give any show, exhibition or
performance or furnish music with mechanical organ or other musical instrument
and other similar places of amusement or entertainment in the Village, except
legitimate plays, vaudeville or motion pictures in a theater, without obtaining
a license therefor from the Board of Trustees.
No person, either privately or for money or hire, shall conduct any
performance or circus performance or caravan of animals or dog racing which
shall cause a crowd to collect within the Village, without obtaining a license
therefor from the Board of Trustees.
Any religious, educational, fraternal, charitable, civic, military or
beneficial organization of the Village giving any form of entertainment may
obtain a license free of charge.
The license fees are hereby fixed as follows:
A.
For the exhibition or parade of a circus, menagerie or
caraven: $50 per day.
B.
For the performance or exhibition of a merry-go-round
or carousel: $10 per day.
C.
For the maintenance of a dance hall or skating rink,
or a combination of both in the same building and by the same party, for one
year or any part thereof: $100.
D.
For the conducting or maintenance of bowling alleys,
a billiard or pocket billiard room, shows, concerts, theatricals, moving pictures
or other similar exhibitions or performances: $30 for one year or any part
thereof.
E.
Hand organ or mechanical organ: $1 per day.
Any person violating the provisions of this chapter or any part thereof
shall be liable for and pay a penalty not exceeding $100 for each offense,
and in addition thereto, such violation shall constitute and is hereby declared
to be disorderly conduct, and any person violating the same shall be and is
hereby declared to be a disorderly person.
