For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICANT. The person that represents the sponsor and that will complete, sign, take responsibility for and have notarized the event application.
CHIEF OF POLICE. The Chief of Police of the town, or his or her designee.
CITY LIMITS. Any area within the incorporated limits of the town.
DEMONSTRATION. Any demonstration, picketing, pamphleteering, leafletting, march or other event organized or held primarily for purposes associated with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This term shall not include purely commercial speech or for-profit events.
FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT. An establishment engaged in the business of regularly selling food, customarily but not exclusively to be eaten on the premises, including businesses that are commonly referred to as restaurants, cafés, grills and other establishments that have a food counter where food is sold.
MALT BEVERAGE. Any beer, lager, malt liquor, ale, porter, or any other brewed or fermented beverage containing at least 0.5%.
OPEN CONTAINER. A container whose seal has been broken or a container other than the manufacturer’s unopened original container.
PUBLIC PLACE. Public streets, sidewalks and rights-of-way of public streets, parking lots, alleys and any other town-owned property that is open to the general public (i.e., any property that is a part of the Town Recreation and Parks System).
SIDEWALK. Any area or way set aside or open to the general public for purposes of pedestrian traffic, regardless of its construction (i.e., paved asphalt, concrete, rock dust, dirt or other construction types).
SPECIAL EVENT. Includes but is not limited to parades, festivals, demonstrations, blocking streets or any other assemblies where two or more people are gathered together and the event is open to the general public, excluding family reunions and birthday parties of less than 100 people.
SPONSOR. Any group, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, school or organization of any kind that is sponsoring the event.
STREET. Any place or way set aside or open to the general public for purposes of vehicular traffic, including any right-of-way or median strip thereof and is maintained by the town or the State Department of Transportation; and all public vehicular areas and parking lots both private and public.
TOWN. The Town of Elkin.
TOWN PROPERTY. Any property owned, leased or occupied by the town.
UNFORTIFIED WINE. Wine that has an alcoholic content produced only by natural fermentation by the addition of pure cane, beet or dextrose sugar, and that has an alcoholic content of not more than 17% alcohol by volume.
WINERY. An establishment regularly engaged in the manufacture, sale or marketing of wine.
(Ord. eff. 6-12-2010)