The commissioner shall receive and submit to the department of transportation for review all applications for permits to use the public way or public grounds or any space above or beneath any public way or public grounds. Upon approval by the department of transportation, the commissioner shall issue permits in accordance with the requirements of this Code. The commissioner shall determine the rate of compensation for any privilege granted in any public way, public grounds or other public place, according to fixed and established scales therefor, and shall act in an advisory capacity to the city council in fixing such rates where no scale is established in granting such privileges by special ordinance.
In no event shall a permit be issued under this section for any use of the public way within, or for any sidewalk that abuts, Millennium Park, as that term is defined in section 10-36-140.
(Added Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 47220, Art. V, § 1)