Applications for licenses shall be made upon forms to be supplied by
the Village Clerk for that purpose. Applications shall contain the following
information:
A. For all licenses required by this chapter:
(1) The name and address of the applicant.
(2) The type of person, whether individual, partnership,
corporation or other type of legal person.
(3) The age, date and place of birth and citizenship of the
applicant and any resident natural agent of the applicant.
(4) If the applicant is a partnership, the names, addresses
and citizenship of all persons having an interest in the business.
(5) If the applicant is a corporation, the names and addresses
and citizenship of all officers.
(6) Any prior convictions of the applicant or any resident
natural agent of the applicant for violation of any law or ordinance.
(7) A statement that applicants shall comply with all local,
county, state and federal requirements.
B. For licenses to conduct public exhibitions as required
by this chapter:
(1) The proposed location and duration of the exhibition.
(2) The nature of the exhibition to be presented.
(3) A detailed list of each exhibition, entertainment, performance
and/or amusement device to be located on the proposed location of the event.
(4) The number of pieces of equipment for music and all loudspeaker
devices and other devices for the amplification of sound.
C. For licenses to operate any premises wherein are located
any amusement devices as defined in this chapter:
(1) The place and description of the machines or devices
to be displayed or operated and the business conducted at that place.
Before any license shall be issued for any exhibition or amusement device
hereunder, the applicant may, at the discretion of the Board of Trustees,
be required to secure a public liability insurance policy in such principal
sum as the Board of Trustees may deem sufficient to protect members of the
public, executed by the applicant and conditioned that the village will be
saved harmless for any injury to persons or property because of fault or default
by the licensees. Said policy shall be issued by a bonding company authorized
to do business in the State of New York, in form approved by the Village Attorney,
and filed with the Village Clerk. A certified check shall be required in the
amount of $250 for cleanup and return of property to its previous condition.
Such certified check shall be returned upon satisfactory inspection.
Nonprofit organizations of the Village of Harriman, including organizations
of a charitable, religious, educational, veteran or firemanic nature, shall
be exempt from the fees for licenses required by this chapter but shall be
required to secure a license for exhibitions or amusement devices required
to be licensed and shall observe all rules of conduct for licensees established
herein.
Licensees shall not permit gambling at any licensed exhibition or on
any licensed premises, except as may be permitted by any Bingo Local Law which has been or may hereafter be enacted by the Board of Trustees.
Licensees shall not permit persons under 18 years of age to play or operate
any mechanical amusement device. No licensee shall permit the giving of any
performance of a lewd, suggestive, vulgar or immoral type or the use therein
of any indecent or obscene language or any behavior tending to corrupt the
public morals or incite the public to break any law or ordinance. No licensee
shall permit any disorderly, lewd, dissolute, drunken or boisterous person,
any person under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic or hallucinogenic
drug or any person whose conduct tends in any way to corrupt the public morals
to be admitted to or to remain in or about any licensed exhibition or premises.
No licensee whose premises are devoted primarily to amusement devices,
as described in this chapter, and which premises are not accessory to another
principal business located within the same premises, shall be permitted to
remain open:
B. On any other day between 11:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m.
C. On the 25th day of December, known as "Christmas Day."
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter
shall, in addition to being subject, if a licensee, to having his license
revoked as provided in this chapter, be guilty of a violation punishable by
a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against
the provisions of this chapter shall constitute, for each day the offense
is continued, a separate and distinct offense hereunder.