[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.