No person, firm or corporation shall give any exhibition or performance for hire, present or conduct any carnival, circus, carrousel, bazaar or any open-air show or place of amusement of any kind, without first having obtained a license therefor from the Common Council of the City of Hudson permitting such performance, exhibition or place of amusement on a specified location, for which a license fee as established by the Common Council shall be paid. Licensees shall also pay to the City the cost of any special services rendered by the City, such as opening hydrants, police and fire protection, etc.
For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
EVENT Any exhibition, performance for hire, carnival, carrousel, bazaar, open-air show or place of amusement.
The provisions of this article shall apply to fund-raising events sponsored, operated and controlled by religious, fraternal, firemanic or civic organizations, but such organizations shall not be required to pay a license fee or surety deposit.
No alcoholic beverages shall be sold at any exhibition, performance for hire, carnival, circus, carrousel, bazaar, open-air show or place of amusement in the City of Hudson.
No games of chance or skill shall be operated in any place of amusement in the City of Hudson.
Applicants for licenses shall be required to post a cash deposit with the City in the amount of $500 before any license required by the provisions of this article will be issued. The cash deposit will be applied against any damage to streets or public property and any cleanup expenses incurred by the City as a result of the activity or event licensed. The cash deposit will be returned to the licensee if the City finds that no damage has been committed or cleanup is required. The unused portion of any cash deposit partially applied against damage caused by, or cleanup required by, the activity or event licensed hereunder shall also be returned to the licensee.
It shall be unlawful for the owner, proprietor, manager or person in charge of any place licensed under the provisions of this article, or for any employee of said place, to harbor, admit, receive or permit to be or remain in and about any such place any lewd or dissolute person, any drunken or boisterous person, any person under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any person whose conduct tends in any way to corrupt the public morals.
It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct himself in a boisterous manner or to use any profane, obscene or indecent language in or about any place licensed under the provisions of his article.
It shall be unlawful to give or permit the giving of any entertainment or exhibition of a lewd, suggestive, vulgar or immoral type or to use therein any indecent or obscene language or to behave in any manner tending to corrupt the public morals.
The applicant shall file with the Common Council before obtaining such license a certificate of public liability insurance covering the applicant and the City of Hudson for personal injuries to any one person in a minimum sum of $50,000, and $100,000 or more than one person; and property damage in the sum of $5,000, for any one person and $10,000 for more than one person, which shall be approved as to form and sufficiency by the Legal Advisor; and shall procure necessary permits that may be required by the Board of Health of Columbia County.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this article shall be guilty of a violation punishable as follows: by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days or by a fine not exceeding $250, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this article shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate and distinct offense hereunder.