This article shall not apply to any show or exhibition supported and managed entirely by local operators for charitable and benevolent purposes, and not for individual or personal profit to those managing and operating the same, regardless of whether such local show or exhibition shall have some of the features of a carnival in connection with the same, nor shall it apply to Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, rides and similar amusement devices sponsored by local merchants, service clubs or other organizations and not operated in connection with any show per exhibition.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XI, Chapter 111, Section 111.15)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to show or exhibit any carnival within the city limits without first obtaining a license so to do from the city secretary.
(b) 
Any person showing or exhibiting, or in any manner connected with or taking part in the showing or exhibiting of a carnival within the city limits without first applying for and obtaining such license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XI, Chapter 111, Section 111.16)
(a) 
Any person desiring to conduct or show a carnival within the city limits shall make application for a license to the city secretary not less than two weeks prior to the time when it is desired to show or exhibit such carnival.
(b) 
Such application shall give the name and permanent address of the owner of the carnival, and if the carnival is owned by a company or corporation, the application shall show such fact and shall also show the name of the manager or other officer in charge of the carnival. In any event, the application shall show the person in active charge and control of showing and exhibiting the carnival.
(c) 
The application shall further give a list of all shows, rides, booths and other businesses and attractions operated in connection with the carnival, listing same by name and with a description of each show or attraction.
(d) 
Such applicant shall also submit with the application, in the form of affidavits and statements, evidence as to the solvency and responsibility of the owner of the carnival, and as to the kind and character of shows and attractions exhibited by the carnival.
(e) 
In making such application, the person making same shall also state, at the end of the application, that he agrees to conduct the carnival and each and all shows, attractions and exhibits therein in a decent, orderly and law abiding manner.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XI, Chapter 111, Section 111.17)
After an application is filed under this division, the city secretary shall consider the same, and if the city secretary is convinced from the evidence submitted that the owner of the carnival is solvent and that he has in the past conducted the carnival in a decent, law abiding and orderly manner, and proposes to while showing in the city, the city secretary shall approve the application.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XI, Chapter 111, Section 111.18)
As a condition and requirement to the licensing of a carnival to show in the city, the applicant for such license shall pay to the city secretary a license fee as stated in the master rate and fee schedule.
(Ordinance 2021-24 adopted 9/9/21)
Upon approval of an application for a license under this division by the city secretary and payment of the fee prescribed by this division, the city secretary shall issue a license to the applicant to show and exhibit the carnival in the city.
(Ordinance 2014-19 adopted 7/8/14)
Any person obtaining a license to show and exhibit a carnival within the city limits shall have the right to show, maintain and operate only such shows, rides, booths and other attractions as shall be under the direct charge and supervision of the owner or operator of the carnival, and it shall not be lawful for any person to show or exhibit in connection with the carnival any show, attraction or concession of any kind or, character independent of the carnival ownership and management, the license granted to such carnival covering and permitting only such shows, attractions and concessions as are owned and operated by the person applying for the license.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XI, Chapter 111, Section 111.21)