[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the
City of Gloucester City; Article I, 5-24-2009; Article II, 4-4-1963. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-24-2009]
No person, persons or corporation shall carry on or exhibit
or cause to be carried on or exhibited at any place whatsoever in
Gloucester City for any price, gain or admission fee, any moving picture
show, without first obtaining a license for that purpose as hereinafter
mentioned. Any person violating this provision shall, upon conviction
thereof, pay a fine of not more than $500 or be imprisoned for not
more than 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge of the
Municipal Court of Gloucester City.
All applications shall be in writing, directed to the City Clerk,
certifying that the building in which it is proposed to conduct such
show is in a safe and proper condition as to danger from fire, means
of exit and general facilities for conducting such show. Upon the
receipt of such an application, the City Clerk is hereby authorized
and empowered to issue the required license in the usual manner to
such persons or corporation as shall apply therefor.
[Amended 11-17-1927; 12-2-1982 by Ord. No. 17-1982]
The fee for said license shall be $25 per month; provided, however,
that a license may be issued for one performance or exhibition, and
the license fee therefor shall be the sum of $5.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately.
[Adopted 4-4-1963]
As used or referred to in this ordinance, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
That which, to the average person applying contemporary community
standards, when considered as a whole, has as its dominant theme or
purpose an appeal to prurient interest.
Includes any person, firm, corporation or association or
persons, their agents, servants or employees.
Includes any place, whether indoor or outdoor, devoted to
public amusement, wherein motion pictures are exhibited for public
entertainment.
It shall be unlawful to display any posters, lithographs portraying
crime or suggestive of obscene actions or situations within the limits
of Gloucester City.
It shall be unlawful to exhibit or allow to be exhibited any
motion picture if the same shall be obscene or offends against morality,
decency or the public welfare, or intends to deprave the minds of
children or adults, or shall be lewd or lascivious, in Gloucester
City.
[Amended 12-5-1974[1]]
Any person violating any provisions of this ordinance shall,
upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not more than $500 or be imprisoned
for not more than 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge
of the Municipal Court of Gloucester City.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with this
ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect after final passage and publication
as provided by law.
