The purpose of this chapter is to provide for
the regulation and licensing of entertainment, including but not limited
to carnivals, side shows, menageries, circuses, caravans and/or a
combination of all or any of them and all types of rides, whether
the same be stationary or mounted on trucks, trailers or other movable
platforms.
No entertainment, exhibition or performance
mentioned or included in any of the four classes specified and defined
in this chapter, shall be conducted, produced or presented for gain
or profit other than from a duly licensed theater, opera house, hall,
enclosure or open area without first procuring from the Town Clerk
a license for that purpose as hereinafter provided.
Every license issued under the provisions of
this chapter shall, at all times, for the term for which it is issued,
be posted in a conspicuous place at or near the principal entrance
of the premises described in such license, or if used for a vehicle,
in a place where the same may be easily examined by any person passing
in and out of such premises or using the ride mounted on said vehicle.
Every license issued under the provisions of
this chapter and all privileges pertaining thereto shall, at all times
be subject to the provisions of this chapter and other provisions
of this Code and such other changes or amendments that may be hereafter
adopted.
All licenses for entertainments, where a license
is required, shall contain a provision that no game, lottery or chance,
gift distribution of money or articles of chance shall be connected
therewith or allowed by the person operating such place, or in anywise
permitted or held out as an inducement to visitors.
All such licenses shall also state the number
of persons such licensed theater, hall, building or open area has
accommodations for and no more than that number shall be allowed to
occupy such theater, hall, building or open area at any one time.
Upon proof satisfactory to the Town Board that
the net proceeds of any one or more of the amusements set forth herein
will be used exclusively for the benefit of a charity, a religious
or benevolent society, public or private school, churches, organizations
of churches, organized fire departments or any U.S. veterans organizations
of any and all wars, including auxiliaries of such organizations,
the Town Board shall exempt such organization from payment of the
fee or fees hereinabove provided.
In connection with the granting of any license
for any amusement set forth herein, the Town Board may provide such
regulations and/or conditions precedent to the granting of the license
for the safety and protection of the general public as it, in its
wisdom, may set up and change from time to time.
Hotels, boardinghouses, bungalow colonies and
rooming houses are expressly excluded from the provisions of this
chapter requiring the obtaining of a license for concerts, minstrel
or musical entertainment, vaudeville and legitimate theater.