[Amended 3-6-2025 by L.L. No. 3-2025, effective 3-14-2025]
No person, firm, corporation, or other entity shall organize, conduct, or take part in any parade upon any Town highway, public street or any other public place in the Town of Brookhaven without a permit issued therefor by the Town Clerk. Such permit shall not be required for any funeral processions for the actual burial of the dead and processions to and from a place of worship in connection with a religious service there celebrated. No permit shall be required for a motorcade and/or other similar processions. The discharge of firearms or fireworks and the making of other reasonable noise during funeral processions or other similar processions is prohibited.
[Amended 5-27-2021 by L.L. No. 9-2021, effective 1-1-2022]
All applications for permits issued pursuant to this article shall be in writing, stating the purpose thereof, and shall be signed by the person applying for the permit therefor or, in the case of an organization, signed by an officer of such organization. Such application shall be submitted to the Town Clerk at least 30 days prior to the date such parade is to be held.
A. 
Any parade held pursuant to a permit issued by the Town Clerk shall only take place upon those highways and parts of highways or public streets as shall be specified by the Town Clerk in the permit.
B. 
The Town Clerk may revoke such permit upon the recommendation of the Highway Department of the Town of Brookhaven, the Division of Fire Prevention of the Town of Brookhaven, the Division of Traffic Safety of the Town of Brookhaven or the Suffolk County Police Department.
[Amended 6-26-2018 by L.L. No. 14-2018, effective 7-9-2018]
Any person taking part in or causing to be conducted a parade without a permit issued therefor pursuant to this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment for not less than 15 days nor more than 90 days, or by both.