[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Lancaster: Art. I, Article 311 of the Codified Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Adult entertainment — See Ch. 76.
Licensing of businesses — See Ch. 186.
[Adopted as Article 311 of the Codified Ordinances]
No person shall conduct any performance, exhibition or entertainment of any kind whatsoever, where money is demanded for admission, within the City without having first obtained a license to conduct the same, which license shall be issued by the Mayor upon the payment of the fees prescribed in § 92-2.
Before obtaining a license, there shall be paid to the Mayor for the use of the City the following fees:
A. 
For every license to exhibit any circus or traveling show, under canvas, where the admission is $0.50 or more, the sum of $100; where the admission is $0.25 or less than $0.50, the sum of $50; where the admission fee charged is less than $0.25, the sum of $25 per day, or part thereof. Where any circus or traveling show under canvas desires to exhibit more than one day, the additional license fee shall be 1/5 of the original license fee for each day the exhibition shall hold forth subsequent to the first day.
B. 
For any other show, spectacle, performance or exhibition whatsoever where money is demanded for admission, the sum of $5 for the first day and $1 for each and every day's performance or exhibition subsequent to the first; provided, however, that any company, firm, individual owner or lessee of any theater, roof garden or hall may, at his discretion, take out an annual license to operate a theater, roof garden or hall. The annual fee for such license shall be $100 per movie screen or stage which will be used or is available for use by the theater, roof garden or hall during the year the license remains in effect. Payment of this annual license fee shall exempt the company, firm, individual owner or lessee of the theater, roof garden or hall from the special daily license fee set forth above.
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Editor's Note: Fees are now set by resolution of the City Council. The current fee resolution is on file in the office of the City Clerk.
The license granted under the terms of this article is granted under the conditions that the same shall be properly used, and if the licensee shall be convicted of giving or exhibiting any picture or play of a lascivious, sacrilegious, obscene, indecent or of an immoral nature and character or such as might tend to corrupt morals, the Mayor is hereby empowered to revoke immediately the license and the person so offending shall forever be barred from having a license granted to him by the City.
The licensee of any place of amusement shall maintain those portions of the premises which are open to the public in a clean, safe and sanitary condition and shall collect and properly dispose of any discarded food, beverage, paper or other waste materials prior to the beginning of each performance, show or movie so as to provide a wholesome and litter-free environment for all customers and patrons. The license granted under the terms of this article may be forfeited or revoked by the Mayor in the event that the licensee violates this section.
Whoever violates any provision of this article shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $600 for each offense and, in default of payment thereof, shall be imprisoned for not more than 30 days.
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Editor's Note: Former Art. II, Amusement Devices, adopted as Article 371 of the Codified Ordinances, was repealed 12-20-2011 by Ord. No. 18-2011, which ordinance provided that it shall take effect 1-1-2012.