(A) Required. It is unlawful for any person to own, manage, lease, or operate any amusement place, amusement, or carnival without first obtaining a license as provided in this code.
(Prior Code, § 111.15)
(B) Application. The owner, manager, or lessee of any licensed amusement place or carnival shall file his or her application for a performance license or permit in conformity with the provisions of this code and shall, in addition, offer information concerning the structure, equipment, and capacity of the amusement place or carnival together with other relevant facts.
(Prior Code, § 111.16)
(C) Fees; schedule.
(1) Amusement places. Every amusement place shall pay an annual license fee of $100 per year for each year the same is so used; provided, that this provision requiring a payment of a license fee shall not apply to any church or school building within the city, unless they are used, leased, or rented for gain or hire, provided also, that the license shall be separate and is not to be accepted in lieu of the license for specific amusements as provided in the following division.
(2) Amusements. No person shall operate, manage, conduct, present, offer, give, or cause to be given within the city any of the following without first obtaining a performance license to do so and without paying the following fees, which are subject to change at the discretion of the city.
Amusement | Fee |
Amusement | Fee |
Amusement consisting of pony or animal rides or attractions operated by animal power for the transportation of persons, each, per day | $10 |
Amusement operated by motor power or other than animal power, including devices, apparatus, and attractions and entertainments for the transportation of persons, each, per day, except merry-go-rounds | $100 |
Circus, menagerie, caravan, or hippodrome or combinations of the same, each, per day | $100 |
Combined vaudeville, variety, musical, or minstrel shows, each, per day | $5 |
Entertainment, exhibition, performance, contest, or amusement not specifically included in any of the categories of this section, each, per day | $5 |
Exhibition to which a separate admission is charged, each, per day | $25 |
Merry-go-round, each, per day | $10 |
Rodeo, horse show, tent show, dog and pony show, exhibition, or show of puppets, panorama, jugglery, sleight of hand performance, industrial and trade shows, monkey shows, wild west shows, or animal shows, each, per day | $5 |
Theatrical exhibition, live or filmed, or musical concert, each, per day of operation | $10 |
(3) Carnivals. Nothing herein to the contrary provided, the required fee for conducting or exhibiting a carnival in the city shall be the sum of $500 for each show or exhibition, which shall be good for a license period not to exceed three days, which sum shall be payable in advance and no license shall be granted except upon the payment of the full fee.
(Prior Code, § 111.17)
(D) Fees; exemptions.
(1) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to require a license fee from any religious, educational, charitable, literary, or scientific club or corporation when presenting the entertainment or amusement where the entire profit from the venture shall inure to and be used for the organization. If any club or corporation shall present any amusement or carnival, contemplated in or by this subchapter, where it is to receive only a percentage of the profits, a license shall be required as provided in this subchapter; provided, that the fee therefor shall be reduced in the same proportion as the club’s share of the proceeds is to the gross receipts of the show, entertainment or amusement.
(2) No license fee shall be required for musical entertainment or concerts and exhibitions of painting and statuary given or made by citizens of the city. No license fee shall be required under this subchapter for amusements given in halls, buildings, or rooms licensed as amusement places. No license fee shall be required for musical entertainment or concerts and exhibitions of painting and statuary given or made by citizens of the city. No license fee shall be required under this subchapter for amusements given in halls, buildings, or rooms licensed as amusement places. No license fee shall be required for historic, scientific, or benevolent or literary subjects and the apparatus for the elucidation of the same, including specimens of fine arts.
(Prior Code, § 111.18)
(E) Nontransferable; revocation. All licenses issued under this subchapter shall be nontransferable, and all licenses so issued shall be subject to the right to revoke the same should the licensee, directly or indirectly, suffer or permit the display or exhibition of any thing or person contrary to good morals as provided in § 111.002.
(Prior Code, § 111.19)
Penalty, see § 111.999