[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Oswego 5-12-1980
as Ch. 105 of the 1980 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Noise — See Ch. 165.
No person, corporation, company or association shall exhibit for money
or other valuable consideration any theatrical representation, concert, circus,
street fairs, acrobatic exhibition, feats of strength, boxing exhibitions,
feats of horsemanship, movies or other natural or artificial curiosity or
open or maintain any hall, rink or place for skating or other amusement for
the public for entrance to which a fee shall be charged or for hire without
first obtaining a license therefor. Such licenses may, in his discretion,
be granted by the Mayor and City Clerk upon payment of a license fee, the
amount of which shall be fixed by the Common Council. The license which may
be granted shall specify the object and the length of time for which it has
been issued or granted, but no license shall be granted by the Mayor and City
Clerk for the use of the streets, highways, parks, playgrounds or any other
public place or property owned or controlled by the city to any person, corporation,
company or association for a circus or so-called street carnival or street
fair, unless the use of such public space shall have been first granted by
the Common Council. It shall be the duty of any person, corporation, company
or association so licensed to keep and maintain good order in and about the
place of exhibition and amusement and, for that purpose, to keep at his, their
or its own expense, a sufficient police force. Any person, corporation, company
or association who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall
be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.) nor more
than fifty dollars ($50.).[2]
No license, however, shall be required for musical parties, concerts,
theatrical representations, exhibitions of pictures, paintings or statuary
or other entertainment given, made or exhibited by or under the auspices of
citizens of the city who shall not make such exhibitions, musical parties,
concerts or theatrical representations a business or profession.
The following are established as the license fees for theatrical and
musical representations and other exhibitions:
A.
For theatrical representations, one (1) exhibition, five
dollars ($5.); two (2) exhibitions, seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50);
and three (3) exhibitions, ten dollars ($10.).
B.
For operas, one (1) exhibition, five dollars ($5.); two
(2) exhibitions, seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50); and three (3) exhibitions,
ten dollars ($10.).
C.
For panoramas, one (1) exhibition, five dollars ($5.);
two (2) exhibitions, seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50); and three (3)
exhibitions, ten dollars ($10.).[1]
D.
For gift exhibitions, one (1) exhibition, ten dollars
($10.); two (2) exhibitions, fifteen dollars ($15.); and three (3) exhibitions,
twenty dollars ($20.).
E.
[2]For movie theaters, theater or other places where moving pictures
are exhibited, the following fees:
(1)
Where said movie, theater or place has a seating capacity
of one thousand (1,000) persons or over, the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.)
per year.
(2)
Where said movie, theater or place has a seating capacity
of five hundred (500) persons and less than one thousand (1,000) persons,
the sum of fifty dollars ($50.) per year.
(3)
Where said movie, theater or place has a seating capacity
of less than five hundred (500), the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.) per
year.
G.
For all other exhibitions not hereintofore specified,
one (1) exhibition, five dollars ($5.); two (2) exhibitions, seven dollars
and fifty cents ($7.50); three (3) exhibitions, ten dollars ($10.); one (1)
week, fifteen dollars ($15.); two (2) weeks, thirty dollars ($30.); and one
(1) year, five hundred dollars ($500.).
[Amended 3-13-1995[3]]
