As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes an individual, society, club, firm, partnership, corporation or association of persons, and the singular number shall include the plural number.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Newfane 3-23-1954 (Ch. 3 of the 1971 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall conduct, operate or carry on a public place of amusement for money or hire, such as a dance hall or place where dancing is permitted, a circus, theater, pool or billiard parlor, bowling alley, shooting gallery, skating rink, an athletic contest or exhibition, show or other exhibition or performance, an amusement park or place where machines or other devices are maintained on or by which games or contests may be played by guests or patrons for their amusement or where other games or forms of amusement are conducted for or by the patrons thereof, unless the owner or operator of such place shall first secure a license to conduct or operate such place from the Town Board of the Town.
Any person desiring such a license shall make a written application therefor to the Town Clerk and shall pay a fee of $1 for each operation if such license is issued. The Town Clerk may provide suitable forms to be used for such applications. The Town Clerk shall immediately submit all such applications to the Town Board for approval, and if such application is so approved, the Town Clerk shall thereupon issue to the applicant a license for such purpose or purposes.
This chapter shall not apply to baseball games or to athletic or social activities of churches, incorporated fire companies, fraternal organizations or to public or private schools and shall not be construed to authorize any form of activity otherwise illegal or contrary to law or public policy.
Any such license may be issued for a period of one year, but all licenses shall expire on the first day of January succeeding the date thereof.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding $50 for the first offense and, for a second or subsequent offense, by a fine not exceeding $50 or by imprisonment in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.