[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
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.