No person shall at any place within the City exhibit, display, conduct,
hold or have, for public entertainment or amusement, for money or other valuable
consideration, any show, theater, theatrical performance, circus, moving picture,
panorama, concert, minstrel show, bowling alley, shooting gallery, merry-go-round,
or any other exhibition, performance, contrivance, mechanism or arrangement
for public entertainment or amusement unless such person shall first have
obtained a license therefor as herein provided or the hall or building in
which the same is held or given shall have paid a license fee as a public
hall as herein provided.
No license shall be required and no license fee charged in the case
of any concert, exhibition or performance given by any person or organization
for any recognized charitable or religious purpose, or for any auditorium
or public hall, or performance, concert or entertainment, under the control,
direction or auspices of the Board of Education of the City of Auburn School
District.
Upon receiving the fees herein fixed, the City Manager shall, upon application,
issue licenses for the particular kind of show, performance, exhibition, amusement
or entertainment desired to be held, which said license shall be issued in
the name of the City Manager upon the express terms and conditions that the
licensee shall comply with all provisions of law and of the laws and ordinances
of the City now in force or hereafter adopted and which shall be upon such
other terms and conditions as the City Manager may in his or her judgment
prescribe as reasonable or suitable.
Such license may at any time be revoked as provided in Chapter
200, Licensing, of this Code if such show, performance, exhibition, amusement or entertainment, or any part or feature thereof, or the purpose to which such public hall is put, is contrary to law, or to the laws or ordinances of the City, or is subversive or contrary to good morals, or for any reason that appears to be good and sufficient.
No person shall hereafter construct, maintain or operate a miniature
golf course or any similar amusement for commercial purposes anywhere in the
City without first obtaining a license or permit therefor from the Council
and paying to the City Clerk the fee prescribed in this chapter.
The following are hereby fixed as rates or fees to be paid upon such
licenses:
A. For theaters, auditoriums or other public halls intended
for public amusement, per year in advance: $75.
B. For circuses or other outdoor performances or shows charging
a general admission for adults of $0.25 or upwards, including sideshows connected
therewith, per day: $50.
C. For circuses or other outdoor performances or shows charging
a general admission for adults of less than $0.25, including sideshows connected
therewith, per day: $25.
D. For menageries, exhibitions, panoramas, moving pictures,
performances, concerts, minstrel shows and other exhibitions, performances
or amusement devices not held in a public hall, per day: $10.
E. For miniature golf courses or similar amusement, per
year in advance: $50.
F. For public dance halls charging admission, per year:
$20; per night: $5.
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or other applicable law, a violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punished as provided in Chapter
1, §
1-18 of this Municipal Code.