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No person shall hold, conduct or participate in a special event within the city, unless a permit has been issued for such event upon timely written application made to the city.
Penalty, see § 118.99
Written application for special event permits must be made at least 30 days in advance of the event's proposed date in a form prescribed by the City Council. This application period shall not begin to run until a complete application has been filed with the city. Application forms shall be made available in the office of the City Administrator. A fee, in the amount specified in the Ordinance Establishing Fees and Charges, shall be paid to the city along with the completed application form. In addition to the fee, the applicant shall pay all additional costs incurred by the city as a direct result of the special event. Failure to provide a complete application or to pay the fee, as herein required, is sufficient reason to deny the special event permit.
(A) Special event permits will be issued upon City Council approval. The Council may attach reasonable conditions to the permit as are deemed necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare. Such conditions may pertain to any of the following:
(1) Location and hours during which the event may be held;
(2) Sanitation/availability of potable water;
(3) Security/crowd management;
(4) Parking and traffic issues;
(5) Emergency and medical services;
(6) Clean-up of premises and surrounding area/trash disposal;
(7) Insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 per event. All required policies shall name the city as an additional insured. Applicants shall agree to defend and indemnify the city from any and all claims;
(8) Lighting;
(9) Fire service/safety;
(10) Temporary construction, barricades/fencing;
(11) Removal of advertising/promotional materials;
(12) Noise levels;
(13) Alcohol consumption;
(14) Any other conditions which the Council deems necessary.
(B) Upon Council approval, the City Clerk shall issue a permit to the person(s) named in the permit application. The permit shall clearly state the conditions, if any, imposed by the Council. Copies of the permit shall be posted in three prominent locations during the special event.
Penalty, see § 118.99
The permit requirement contained in this chapter does not apply to the following:
(A) Special events sponsored and managed by the city;
(B) Funerals and funeral processions;
(C) The grounds of any school, playground, place of worship, hotel conference center, stadium, athletic field, arena, auditorium or similar permanent place of assembly when used for regularly established assembly purposes.
(A) Any permit holder violating any of the provisions of this chapter relating to public dances shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided in § 10.99, and their public dance permit is suspended immediately at the time of any arrest or citation for violating this chapter.
(B) (1) Any person who violates any condition of a special event permit or any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as prescribed by § 10.99.
(2) Enforcement of this division may, at the Council's discretion, take any of the following forms:
(a) Citation/criminal prosecution;
(b) Injunctions, declaratory judgements or other civil remedies;
(c) Permit revocation;
(d) Disbursement of persons gathered.