This chapter may be known and may be cited as
the "Amusements and Amusement Devices Ordinance of the City of Lackawanna,
New York."
[Added 1-16-1996]
A.
No carnivals, bazaars, circuses or field days may
be held or sponsored by any organization, church, municipality, person,
firm or corporation at which the general public is invited to attend
and required to pay any charge of any sum of money for public attendance
or participation, without first applying for and obtaining a permit
from the City Clerk and paying a fee of $75 per event, which permit
shall be valid for a period of 72 hours. The City Council may, by
resolution, waive the permit fee in cases involving a verifiable charitable
purpose.
B.
Prior to the approval by the City Clerk of an application
for such permit, the same must be approved by the Director of Development
and the Director of Public Safety. No such permit shall be valid in
any occurrence where any electric or petroleum powered equipment used
in connection with the operation of any amusement equipment for said
event is situated less than a distance of 150 feet from a residential
building.
Every license issued under the provisions of
this chapter shall at all times, during the term for which it was
issued, be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises described
in such license, so that the same may be easily seen and read.
Every license granted under the provisions of
this chapter, and all the privileges belonging thereto, shall at all
times be subject to the local laws and ordinances of the City in force
when such license shall be issued or which shall thereafter be adopted,
so far as the same shall be applicable thereto.
A.
Prohibited activities. It is hereby forbidden and
made unlawful for any carnivals, bazaars, circuses, field days, picnics
or similar events to be held by any organization, church, municipality,
person, firm or corporation, either for profit or other purpose at
or on public lands conveyed by the City of Buffalo to the City of
Lackawanna by deed dated June 2, 1921, and recorded in Liber 3275
of Deeds at page 564 in the Erie County Clerk's office and commonly
known as “Memorial Field.”
B.
Activities permitted. The prohibition set forth in Subsection A shall not apply to baseball, football, soccer or other athletic games and activities duly scheduled and authorized by the Director of Parks and Recreation, the Council or Mayor, provided that there shall be no conflict of dates or schedules, and in event of conflict the Mayor may cancel one or all of such authorizations.
A.
License required. It shall be unlawful for any person
to operate a rink or place where roller skating or ice skating is
conducted or carried on as an amusement, or where instruction is given
on roller skates or ice skates without first obtaining a license therefor.
B.
Fee; expiration. The fee for such license shall be
$50 per year which shall expire on the 31st day of December next succeeding
the date of issuance.
