[Adopted 11-13-1957 as Ch. 43 of the General Ordinances, approved 11-15-1957]
A.
No person shall exhibit or cause to be exhibited to the public in
any hall, theater, garden, grounds, concert room or other place or
room any theatrical entertainment, representations, feats of horsemanship,
animals, artificial curiosity, circus, caravan, tragedy, comedy, opera,
ballet, play, farce, curiosities, tricks of legerdemain, vaudeville
performance, motion-picture show or any other show, performance or
other exhibition, where the same is given for charge, hire or price
of admission, without first obtaining a license therefor.
B.
The Mayor is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to issue such
license upon the following terms and conditions:
(1)
No such license shall be issued until the applicant therefor shall
have first filed with the City Clerk, without cost to the City, satisfactory
evidence of the issuance of public liability insurance covering the
City in the amounts of not less than $100,000 for any one person and
not less than $300,000 for any one accident and not less than $25,000
for property damage, such insurance to be approved as to form, correctness
and adequacy by the Corporation Counsel. Such insurance shall secure
the City against any loss, injury or damage arising out of any acts,
omissions or negligence on the part of said applicant, his servants,
agents or employees. Such applicant shall comply with all the requirements
of the laws of the State of New York and ordinances of the City of
Mount Vernon, New York, particularly those laws, regulations and ordinances
relating to fire prevention and buildings in effect or adopted during
the term of such license.
[Amended 5-22-1963, approved 5-23-1963]
(2)
Prior to the issuance of such license permitting such performance
or performances, such applicant shall pay to the City Clerk the following
fees therefor:
[Amended 12-26-1968, approved 12-27-1968]
(a)
For any single performance, the fee shall be not less than $15
nor more than $62.50, at the discretion of the Mayor.
(b)
For any license granted for any number of performances in excess
of one, the fee shall be $62.50 for any period not longer than six
months and $125 for any period not more than one year.
C.
This section shall not apply to any performance given in any church
or school.
Licenses for any entertainment given for which admission charges
are collected by or for the benefit of any church, school, veterans
organization, or benevolent, charitable or scientific society, fire
company or firemen's or policemen's benefit society or association,
or for any local charity may be required and be granted by the Mayor
in his discretion, but without fee or charge.
If, in the judgment of the Mayor, there is cause for the revocation
of any such license so issued, he may in his discretion revoke the
same immediately or, by written communication to the licensee, fix
the effective date of the revocation. In the event of a revocation
of a license issued for more than one performance, the pro rata amount
of the license fee previously collected shall be returned to the licensee.
