[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Gloversville
8-10-1965 as Chapter 6 of the 1965 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 12-3-1974 by L.L.
No. 10-1974[1]]
No person or persons, corporation, association or society shall give
a public exhibition, carnival or public circus performance for money, or give
any carnival or public circus parade, upon the streets of the City of Gloversville,
or maintain any place of public amusement in the City of Gloversville, until
same shall obtain a license therefor from the City of Gloversville, New York,
and pay to the City Clerk the respective fees therefor as hereinafter specifically
fixed by this chapter, or as may be fixed by the Common Council upon application
to it as hereinafter provided. All applications for a license for a carnival
or circus performance or a carnival or circus parade upon the streets of the
City of Gloversville must be in writing and signed by the applicant and presented
to the City Clerk. The City Clerk shall have the power to grant or deny any
such permit therefor, and for all permits for a carnival a charge of two hundred
fifty dollars ($250.) per quarter, fifty dollars ($50.) per week or ten dollars
($10.) per day shall be fixed by the Common Council and paid by the applicant
prior to the execution of any such permit. The license fee for any circus
performance or circus parade shall be not less than ten dollars ($10.) per
day, fifty dollars ($50.) per week or two hundred fifty dollars ($250.) per
quarter.
In addition to the fees hereinabove or hereinafter stated or fixed by
the Common Council, upon application all the owners and operators of any circus
or carnival exhibition, which circus or carnival desires to parade on and
over the streets of the City of Gloversville, shall give a bond to the city
in a sum fixed by the Common Council not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.)
to indemnify the city against any damage to its streets or property. On all
public performances for which no specified fee is charged, the Common Council
shall fix such charge therefor as in its judgment it may determine necessary
and proper.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 6-3, Temporary exhibitions, 6-4, Theatrical performances and exhibitions, as amended, 6-5, Moving pictures and dances, as amended, 6-6, Skating rinks, bowling alleys and basketball games, and 6-7, Merry-go-rounds and galleries, of the 1965 Code, which sections immediately followed this section, were deleted at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
The annual licenses provided for herein shall all expire on January
1 subsequent to their granting, and the aforesaid fees therefor shall be payable
in advance on January 1 of each year.
All buildings and places licensed for public exhibitions shall at all
times be subject to the inspection and regulation of the Building Inspector,
the Chief of Police and the Chief of the Fire Department with reference to
their safety, their proper means of exit, their freedom from danger from fire
and their protection against fire; and all licenses shall be granted only
upon the distinct understanding that they shall at once be revoked upon the
filing with the City Clerk of the report of either the Chief of Police or
the Chief of the Fire Department or the Building Inspector that the licensed
building or place is for any reason herein stated unsafe for a public gathering.
A.
All licenses granted under this chapter and for which
the fees therefor have been paid in advance shall be valid for the period
for which they are granted, unless revoked as herein provided.
B.
The granting of any license under this chapter is in
the discretion of the Common Council where said power is specifically reserved
to said Common Council, and in the discretion of the Mayor in all other cases,
as to the property or place of exhibition, entertainment, show or performance.
C.
No license granted under this section shall be construed
as permitting any immoral, indecent or unlawful exhibition or performance,
and the giving of any immoral, indecent or unlawful exhibition or performance
shall operate to revoke a license under which, or to the hall or other place
in which, it is given and shall cause the forfeiture of the license fee paid.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter may be punishable
by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.) nor more than two hundred
fifty dollars ($250.) or imprisonment for a period not exceeding fifteen (15)
days, or both.
