[1960 Code, Sec. 2.38.010]
No circus, menagerie, caravan, carnival or amusement company,
theater, concert, minstrel performance, panorama, natural or artificial
curiosity, exhibition, show, lecture, skating rink, entertainment
or amusement of any kind whatsoever, for the witnessing of which an
admission fee is charged, except if the same is given under the auspices
and for the benefit of some charitable association, society or church
of the City, shall be given, exhibited or performed within the City
without a license therefor first being taken out by the person owning,
managing or exhibiting the same, under penalty of $100 for each such
exhibition or performance.
Provided, however, that this section shall not be applicable
to the Logan County Fair Association so long as that association shall
be so designated as the county fair by the board of supervisors of
this county; nor shall this section be applicable so long as the above
specified activities are under the sponsorship of a nonprofit organization
or association which has as its main goal the furthering of the charitable
or civic interests of this community.
Provided further, that before any license shall issue for any
of the purposes in this section enumerated where the giving, exhibiting
or performing is to take place in or upon any open grounds, lots or
plot within the City, the person giving, owning, managing or sponsoring
such exhibitions or performances shall deposit with the City Clerk
on his official receipt, as liquidated damages, a sum equal to the
amount of the license fee designated for the particular exhibition
or performance; such sum so deposited to be held by the City during
the license period and to be forfeited to the City as liquidated damages
in the event the grounds, lots or plot upon or within which said exhibition
or performance is given shall, to the detriment of the public health
and safety, be put and left in an unsightly, unsafe, unkempt or insanitary
condition. Provided further, upon certification by the board of health
or its due representative as to the freedom of such premises from
conditions inimical to the public health and safety occasioned by
its use or occupancy by said licensee, said deposit to be returned
to the maker thereof upon his giving proper receipt therefor.
[1960 Code, Sec. 2.38.020]
Every show or exhibition as aforesaid shall pay into the City
treasury for such license the following fees:
Type
|
Fee
|
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Exhibition of a circus
|
$35 per day
|
Exhibition of a menagerie
|
$25 per day
|
Exhibition of a circus and menagerie combined, commonly held
out and advertised as a circus
|
$50 per day
|
Each side show accompanying either of the above
|
$10 per day
|
Any show of the class usually known as dog, pony, monkey or
bird show
|
$35 per day
|
For any aggregation of separate and distinct shows, rides and
attractions, usually known and designated as a carnival or amusement
company
|
$100 per week or fraction thereof
|
For any and all other shows, entertainments or amusements, for
which license is required, where not otherwise specified for each
show
|
$15 per day
|
[1960 Code, Secs. 5.12.220, 5.12.210, 2.38.020; 1975 Code]
It shall be unlawful for any circus, or circus and menagerie,
to parade in and along any of the streets or avenues of the City without
first having obtained a permit so to do from the Mayor. For a parade
upon the streets and public ways of the City by said circus or menagerie,
exhibiting outside of the City limits, the license fee shall be $20
for each parade.
The Mayor may issue a permit to any circus or circus and menagerie,
to parade in and along the streets and avenues of the City, in which
permit he shall specify the streets and avenues in and along which
any such parade shall be made, and said parade shall not be made in
or along any other streets or avenues other than those named in said
permit. If any show shall be exhibiting or performing outside of the
City limits and desires to parade within the City limits, the Mayor
shall not grant such permit until such show shall have paid into the
City treasury the license fee hereinabove required. Any person violating
the provisions of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not
less than $20 nor more than $200, and the Mayor may, in his discretion,
revoke the license to exhibit such show or to parade within the City.
It shall be unlawful for any circus or carnival to be exhibited
or conducted on the streets around the City square.