[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.
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.