[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Greensburg 6-3-1963 as Ord. No. 698. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
In this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT
Any theatrical or dramatic performance, opera, concert, vaudeville or motion picture show, circus or carnival or any other exhibition, show or amusement whatever, of any nature or kind, for which an admission fee is charged or for which money or other nature of reward is in any manner demanded or received. The term "public entertainment" shall not include any lecture on current affairs or on any scientific, religious or literary subject; any exhibition of statuary, painting or handicraft of any kind; any church, school or college affair; any musical or other performance given for the entertainment of persons present at any public eating or drinking place; or any performance or exhibition conducted for benevolent or charitable purpose or sponsored or presented by any nonprofit religious, educational or charitable corporation or organization.
B. 
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
[Amended 12-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1646]
No person, either as principal or agent, shall conduct or hold any public entertainment in the City of Greensburg without first having obtained a license therefor from the Building and Fire Code Enforcement Department. Such license shall state the type of public entertainment for which it is proposed to be granted and the term for which it is to be in effect. No person, under any such license, shall conduct or hold any type of public entertainment other than the type designated upon the license; nor shall any person conduct any public entertainment under any such license except at the place designated upon the license; nor shall any person, under any such license, continue to conduct any public entertainment after the expiration or revocation of any such license or during the suspension thereof, provided that in any instance, the Building and Fire Code Enforcement Department may defer or refuse to grant any such license pending an investigation under the direction of the Mayor to determine whether such public entertainment or the place where the same is proposed to be held shall constitute a threat to the health, safety or morals of the public.
[Amended 12-9-1991 by Ord. No. 1510; 12-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1646]
The fee for every license to be issued under this chapter shall be as set by the City Council, provided that the proprietor or lessee of any hall, auditorium, theater or motion picture theater may, instead of obtaining a daily license for every public entertainment held therein, obtain a yearly license upon payment of a fee as set by the City Council. Such yearly licenses shall be issued upon a calendar-year basis, and no reduction shall be granted for any such license applied for or issued after the beginning of any calendar year, except that any license issued after June 30 of any year shall be granted upon payment of a fee as set by the City Council. All license fees payable under this chapter shall be for the use of the city to recompense or partially recompense the city for expenses incurred in issuance of such licenses and for additional expenses incurred by the City by virtue of the presence of such public entertainment, including inspections, investigations and traffic control. The holder of every such license shall keep the same at the place where the public entertainment authorized thereby is held and shall exhibit the same, upon request, to any member of the Police Department or any officer of the city.
A. 
Any license granted by authority of this chapter may be suspended or revoked by the Mayor in any instance where he shall find that the holding of any such entertainment or the place where the same is held or proposed to be held shall constitute a threat to the health, safety or morals of the public.
B. 
Whenever under the provisions of this chapter the City of Greensburg is empowered to make a decision with respect to the suspension or revocation of any license, any applicant for a license aggrieved by said decision may, within ten (10) days following said decision, file a written appeal therefrom with the City Council of the City of Greensburg, whereupon the City Council shall promptly conduct a hearing and affirm, modify or reverse the decision appealed from. The decision of the City Council shall be final.
[Added 12-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1646]
[Amended 12-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1646]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, for every such violation, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than six hundred dollars ($600.) or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment, provided that each day that any violation shall exist or continue to exist shall constitute a separate violation.