[R.O. 2012 §610.010; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.010]
A.
ADMISSION CHARGE
AMUSEMENT or ENTERTAINMENT
CIVIC ORGANIZATION
As used in this Chapter, and unless otherwise defined or
distinctly expressed, the following words and phrases shall have the
meanings set out herein:
Any charge or consideration for the right or privilege to
any amusement or entertainment, or admission to or entry to any area
or facility, where such amusement or entertainment is conducted.
Includes carnivals, circuses and side shows, and street fairs,
for which an admission charge is made.
Any not-for-profit organization, organized for civic, charitable,
benevolent or religious purposes, the majority of members of which
are residents of this City, and the purposes of which are primarily
for the benefit of the City and its citizens. Political organizations
are expressly excluded from being within the definition of such term.
[R.O. 2012 §610.020; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.020]
A permit must be obtained in order to conduct any amusement or entertainment within the limits of this City, under the provisions of this Chapter. Only a civic organization shall be issued a permit; other amusements or entertainments may be conducted, but only if the same has been licensed under the provisions of Chapter 605 of this Code.
[R.O. 2012 §610.030; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.040]
A.
Every civic organization proposing to sponsor or conduct
any amusement or entertainment within the City shall apply, through
a duly elected officer of the said civic organization, in writing
to the City Clerk for a permit to operate such amusement or entertainment.
1.
All applicants shall state on their application
that they will indemnify the City for any claim resulting from the
operation of the amusement or entertainment, and each application
shall be accompanied by a certificate of insurance, showing the City
as the named insured, covering any damage or liability to the City
which may be caused by the operation of the amusement or entertainment,
the amount of said insurance to be as required by such rules and regulations
the promulgation of which is hereinafter provided, but in no event
to be less than bodily injury limits of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00)
for each occurrence and ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for each
person, and property damage limits of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00)
for each occurrence and twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) aggregate.
2.
All applicants shall accompany their application
with a bond in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00), which
bond shall secure the applicant's removing all litter from the site
of the amusement or entertainment at its termination. Should it be
necessary for the City to remove litter from the amusement site, the
cost of such removal shall be deducted from the bond, and the remainder
returned to the applicant.
3.
The City Clerk may refuse to issue a permit to
any amusement or entertainment, the operation of which does not comply
with this Chapter, or which has in any previous operation in any other
City, or in this City, violated the ordinance or requirements of such
other City or this City.
4.
Upon determination that the proposed amusement
or entertainment shall comply with this Chapter, the City Clerk shall
issue a permit and shall so notify the applicant.
[R.O. 2012 §610.040; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.050]
A.
Any amusement or entertainment conducted pursuant to this
Chapter shall comply with the following rules:
1.
Hours of operation shall be limited from 8:00
A.M. to 12:00 Midnight.
2.
Adequate restroom facilities for both sexes shall
be provided on the premises of such amusement or entertainment. Such
facilities may be of a temporary nature, other than privies.
3.
All electrical wiring and lighting must be approved
by the City.
4.
Adequate facilities for the disposal of trash
and debris shall be provided on the premises.
5.
The premises shall be inspected prior to operation
by the City Clerk or his/her designate to determine that the requirements
of this Chapter and any other ordinances of the City applicable to
public rooms and buildings have been complied with.
6.
The area or premises where such amusement or entertainment
is conducted shall be cleaned and policed after the cessation of such
amusement or entertainment and all trash, litter and debris shall
be removed.
[R.O. 2012 §610.050; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.060]
The Mayor is hereby given authority to establish and promulgate
rules and regulations consistent with the terms of this Chapter, for
the purpose of carrying out and enforcing compliance therewith, and
a copy of such rules and regulations shall be on file and available
for public examination in the office of the City Clerk. Failure or
refusal to comply with any such rules and regulations established
and promulgated under this Section shall be deemed a violation of
this Chapter.
[R.O. 2012 §610.060; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.070]
Any permit issued pursuant to this Chapter may be revoked by
the Mayor upon his/her determination that the amusement or entertainment
is being operated or conducted in violation of this Chapter, or in
violation of rules and regulations established and promulgated pursuant
thereto or is so conducted or operated as to endanger substantially
the public peace, health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this
City.
[R.O. 2012 §610.070; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.080]
There shall be no fee for the permit required by this Chapter.
[R.O. 2012 §610.080; Ord. No. 2025, CC 1981 §53.090]
Any amusement or entertainment which is not operated, conducted, or sponsored by a civic organization may be operated within this City, if a license for the same has been obtained under Chapter 605 of this Code. The requirements of Sections 610.030, 610.040, 610.050 shall apply to such amusement or entertainment.
[R.O. 2012 §610.090; Ord. No. 2021 §§1 — 4]
A.
Any person, firm, or corporation, or association will be
able to operate amusement rides, carnivals, amusement games, concession
stands and entertainment on the streets of the City of Bloomfield,
under the supervision of a sponsor.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation,
or association to erect any carnival ride, or concession stand or
amusement games of any type upon any street of the City of Bloomfield,
without leaving a fire lane open for fire trucks and any other emergency
vehicle.
C.
Any firm, person, corporation, or association violating the terms of Subsection (B) of this Section, shall upon conviction, be guilty of an ordinance violation, and upon conviction, shall be fined no less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) a day for each day in which said violation occurred.
D.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to impound
any ride, concession stand, amusement booth, when so operated in violation
of this Section, and to hold the same for payment of any fine which
is assessed.
[R.O. 2012 §635.010; CC 1981 §57.010]
No person shall set up or keep for use and operation for gain
or profit within the corporate limits of the City of Bloomfield, Missouri,
any pinball machines, gaming device or panatrope without first having
obtained a permit so to do.
[R.O. 2012 §635.020; CC 1981 §57.020]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any machine, device, pinball machine, gaming table, pistol
gallery, shooting gallery, muscle developer, lung tester, video game
or ball alley where the payment of money is made and on which any
person may play, test his/her skill or strength or lung power and
compete with another in making a score, testing strength, skill or
lung power.
Any jukebox, music box, recorded music player, or musical
instrument which is mechanically operated and which is started in
operation by the deposit of a coin in a slot.
Any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint partnership,
joint adventure, association, corporation, estate, business trust,
trustee, receiver, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting
as a unit, in the plural as well as in the singular number.
Any device or machine where the payment of money is made
and the device put into operation by the deposit of a coin in a slot
for the purpose of playing games with balls, marbles, or discs propelled
by a plunger or level or otherwise.
[R.O. 2012 §635.030; CC 1981 §57.030]
Any person of good moral character may apply to the City Clerk
of the City of Bloomfield for a license as prescribed in this Chapter
and, subject to the approval of the Board of Aldermen, a license shall
be issued to the applicant upon payment of the fee herein prescribed
and said permit shall be valid for a period of one (1) year from the
date of issuance unless sooner revoked. The Board of Aldermen shall
have the right to disapprove any permit so issued upon a finding by
said Board that the holder of said license has permitted or is permitting
prostitutes, known drunkards, or persons with criminal records to
frequent or congregate on the premises where he/she is operating any
pinball machine, gaming device or panatrope, or, upon a finding by
said Board that any pinball machine, gaming device or panatrope under
the control of a license holder has been used while under his/her
control as a gambling device or that any game of chance has been played
thereon for money or profit. Upon such disapproval by the Board of
Aldermen, said license shall be revoked and immediately become null
and void and of no effect and shall be surrendered to the City Clerk
at his/her office.
[R.O. 2012 §635.040; CC 1981 §57.040]
All persons applying for a permit under this Chapter, by the
mere act of applying, represent that they are of good moral character,
and that they will, if granted a permit, conform to abide by and comply
with this and all other City ordinances pertinent to the license issued.
Any misrepresentation on the part of any applicant for a permit shall
give the Board of Aldermen the right to immediately revoke the privileges
conferred by said license and declare the same inoperative, null and
void and of no effect.
[R.O. 2012 §635.050; CC 1981 §57.050]
All licenses as provided for in this Chapter shall be displayed
in a conspicuous location in the license holder's place of business
and are not transferable or assignable or subject to refund if disapproved,
surrendered, or revoked before the date of their expiration.
[R.O. 2012 §635.060; CC 1981 §57.060]
Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to permit any person
to use a pinball machine, gaming device or panatrope as a gambling
device or to play any game of chance thereon for money or profit,
or to permit a license holder or the agent or servant of a license
holder under this Chapter to permit or suffer any pinball machine,
gaming device or panatrope to be used as a gambling device or to permit
or suffer any person to play any game of chance thereon for money
or profit.
[R.O. 2012 §635.070; CC 1981 §57.070]
No establishment licensed under the provisions of this Chapter
shall be open after 12:00 Midnight or before 7:00 A.M. on weekdays
or before 1:00 P.M. on Sundays.
[R.O. 2012 §635.080; CC 1981 §57.080]
Every license holder under the provisions of this Chapter shall
at all times control the volume of any panatrope under his/her control
so that the sound of the same shall not disturb the peace and quiet
of neighboring businesses or residents or otherwise create a nuisance.
[R.O. 2012 §635.090; CC 1981 §57.090]
No license holder under the provisions of this Chapter shall
permit or suffer any indecently suggestive, lewd or immoral song to
be played on any panatrope under his/her control.
[R.O. 2012 §635.100; CC 1981 §57.100]
No license holder under the provisions of this Chapter shall
permit or suffer any minor to use or operate any pinball machine or
gaming device under his/her control without the written consent of
the parents or guardian of said minor.
[R.O. 2012 §635.110; CC 1981 §57.110]
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to make frequent
and regular inspections of the places of business of any license holder
under this Chapter and to make complaint before the Municipal Judge
for any violation of the provisions of this Chapter, any citizen may
likewise make complaint and the Municipal Judge shall thereupon issue
his/her process against the accused, and the case shall be tried as
other cases, and it shall not be necessary for the Chief of Police
or other person making complaint to give any notice to the person
violating the provisions of this Chapter before making such complaint
or before suit is brought.
