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Village of Shorewood, WI
Milwaukee County
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The words "shows and amusements" as used herein shall include:
A. 
Any traveling caravan, carnival, circus, shooting gallery, sideshow, or vaudeville act;
B. 
Any so-called rides operated for amusement, including Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, ocean wave, whip, sea plane, caterpillar, butterfly or similar devices; and
C. 
Any trained animals, wild animals, menagerie or any other object of curiosity, all of which are operated or exhibited for profit.
The terms of this article shall not be deemed to require a permit for permanent theater establishments.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate any shows or amusements as defined herein within the Village of Shorewood without first having obtained a permit from the Village for that purpose.
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate any shows or amusements as defined herein shall file with the Village Clerk on an approved form a permit application together with the required fee therefor. The provisions of § 480-5 of the Village Code related to investigation of transient merchants shall be applicable herein. Upon receipt of favorable recommendation from the Police Department and upon approval of the Village Manager, the Clerk shall issue the appropriate permit.
The permit fee required herein shall be as provided by the Village Fee Schedule, which shall be payable in advance.
A. 
Such permits shall automatically expire 10 days after their issuance.
B. 
A permit shall not be assignable, and any holder of such permit who allows it to be used by any other person, and also any person who uses a permit granted to any other person, shall be guilty of a violation of this article.
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Whenever a permit shall be defaced, lost, stolen or destroyed, the permittee shall immediately apply to the Village Clerk for a duplicate. The Village Clerk shall, before issuing any duplicate, receive from said permittee the sum as provided by the Village Fee Schedule and also an affidavit stating the facts relative to the loss and what search has been made for its recovery.
The Village Manager or the Village Clerk may at any time, upon a violation of this article or any ordinance or law, revoke any permit. When a permit shall be revoked, no refund of any unearned portion of the permit fee shall be made. Notice of such revocation and the reason therefor, in writing, shall be served personally upon the person named in the application, or by mailing the same to the latest address given in the application, and by filing a copy of such notice with the Village Clerk. Appeals may be taken as in § 186-19 of this chapter.