[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Auburn 3-28-1991
by L.L. No. 2-1991 as Ch. 15, Arts. II and IX of the 1991
Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
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.
A.
Operator required. In all theaters, auditoriums, places
of amusement, and other public places where projectors are used for the projection
of motion pictures, there shall not be less than one operator on duty.
B.
Qualifications of operator. Each such operator shall
not be less than 21 years of age, shall be experienced in the operation of
such machines, and shall, if required by the City Manager, submit to an examination
as to his or her qualifications by two qualified examiners to be appointed
by the City Manager.
C.
Compliance prerequisite to license. No license for operation
as provided by this section shall be issued by the City Manager to any theater,
public hall or place of amusement unless its motion picture machines are operated
as herein required, and any license issued may be revoked for a violation
of this provision.
D.
Violations. Any person owning, managing, directing or
in charge of any such theater, auditorium, public hall or other public place
who shall sanction or permit the operation of the picture machines used in
such place contrary to the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
violation of this section.
A.
Motion pictures. It shall be lawful to conduct or participate
in motion picture exhibitions on the first day of the week after 1:05 p.m.,
to witness which the public is invited or an admission fee is charged, either
directly or indirectly, in the City.
B.
Special license required. Such motion pictures shall
not be so exhibited by any person in any place without there having been procured
a special license therefor from the Council in addition to the license required
to be procured under any other provision of the existing law and ordinances
of the City, and the Council may issue such licenses, fix the fees therefor
to be paid to the City Treasurer, and prescribe the terms and conditions thereof
and at any time, for good cause to it appearing, may revoke any such license
so issued by it.
C.
Compliance with conditions required. Such motion pictures
shall be so exhibited on the first day of the week within such hours only
in compliance with and obedience to the terms and provisions of the license
issued by the Council therefor, and such other orders and regulations as may
be made from time to time with respect to such exhibitions by the Council,
and not otherwise.
D.
Admission fee. No greater admission fee shall be charged
for such exhibition than has been charged for an exhibition on weekdays.
E.
Other activities prohibited. In connection with or in
addition to the motion pictures so exhibited on any such day, there shall
not be given, introduced or offered any show, dance, song, monologue, sketch,
play, entertainment or other exhibition whatsoever, and no person shall give,
introduce or offer or participate in giving, introducing or offering any of
said matters in connection with, or in addition to, any such motion pictures
or exhibition thereof on such day.
F.
Applicability. The foregoing restrictions as to motion
pictures shall not be deemed to apply to exhibitions by churches or religious
organizations where no admission fee is charged.
A.
Hours and location. It shall be lawful to conduct, witness,
participate or engage in the playing of baseball games on the first day of
the week after 1:05 p.m., to witness which the public is invited or an admission
fee is charged, either directly or indirectly, in the City at such place and
on such grounds as shall be designated or permitted for that purpose by the
City Manager upon due application. Any such designation may be revoked or
altered by the City Manager or by the Council at any time.
B.
Authority to charge for admission. For the purpose of
witnessing such games an admission fee may or may not be charged, as may be
approved by the City Manager, but no greater fee shall be charged on Sunday
than on any weekday.
C.
Conduct regulated. Such baseball playing shall not, nor
shall any person participating therein, unreasonably disturb the peace of
the day.
D.
Revocation of permission. Any such permission so granted
may be revoked at any time by the City Manager or by the Council for any cause.
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.
