(A) No person shall permit, maintain, promote, conduct, advertise, act as entrepreneur, undertake, organize, manage, or sell or give tickets to an actual or reasonably anticipated assembly of 1,000 or more people which continues or can reasonably be expected to continue for 18 or more consecutive hours, whether on public or private property, unless a license to hold the assembly has first been issued by the County Commissioners, application for which must be made at least 30 days in advance of the assembly. A license to hold an assembly issued to one person shall permit any person to engage in any lawful activity in connection with the holding of the licensed assembly.
(B) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASSEMBLY. Includes a company of persons gathered together at any location at any single time for any purpose.
PERSON. Includes any individual natural human being, partnership, corporation, firm, company, association, society, or group.
(C) A separate license shall be required for each location in which 1,000 or more people assemble or can reasonably be anticipated to assemble; the fee for each license shall be $100 for each day.
(D) A license shall permit the assembly of only the maximum number of people stated in the license. The licensee shall not sell tickets to, nor permit to assemble at, the licensed location more than the maximum permissible number of people.
(E) This chapter shall not apply to any regular established, permanent place of worship, stadium, athletic field, arena, auditorium, coliseum, or other similar permanently established place of assembly for assemblies which do not exceed by more than 250 people the maximum seating capacity of the structure where the assembly is held.
(F) This chapter shall not apply to government sponsored fairs held on regularly established fairgrounds, nor to assemblies, required to be licensed by other ordinances and regulations of the county.
(Ord. 1-71, passed 6-1-1971) Penalty, see § 10.99