(A) Persons who otherwise meet the requirements for a parade permit and who receive a parade permit are entitled to exercise their First Amendment rights in the city; however, in order to better protect the participants and the citizens of the city and the property of the citizens, and to facilitate the flow of the parade and of traffic in general, certain streets and thoroughfares in the city will be designated by the Chief of Police as routes which the participants may use for the parade. The applicant who secures a parade permit shall request the route through which he or she wished to conduct the parade in accordance with those streets set forth above. The Chief of Police shall approve the specified streets and thoroughfares that are to be used for the parade and the route of the parade.
(B) The applicant may request a route deviation from those streets designated by the Chief of Police. The applicant shall set forth the basis or reasons for the necessity of the deviation in the written request. The Chief of Police shall approve a deviation in the route if he or she finds that the conditions set forth hereunder are met:
(1) There will be reasonable and safe access along the deviated route;
(2) There will be no impeding pedestrian or traffic congestion in the area because of the numbers of participants and numbers of residents living within the area;
(3) The deviated route does not present a clear danger to children in congested residential areas based upon lack of sidewalks, the narrow width of streets and the numbers of participants and/or motor vehicles involved; and
(4) After considering the distance to be traveled, duration of the parade, number of intersections which will be crossed during the parade, accessibility of emergency vehicles, availability of sidewalk areas to accommodate pedestrian traffic, and the number of participants, spectators and residential citizens living adjacent to the route, that adequate provisions can be made for the safe and orderly movement of the parade and of other traffic pedestrian and vehicular, contiguous to the deviated route.
(C) The Chief of Police shall issue a permit as provided hereunder when, from a consideration of the application and from other information as may otherwise be obtained, he or she finds that:
(1) Adequate provisions can be made for the safe and orderly movement of the parade and of other traffic, pedestrian and vehicular, contiguous to its route;
(2) Adequate provisions can be made for police protection which will not require diversion of so great a number of police officers of the city to police properly the lines of movements and the areas contiguous thereto as to prevent normal police protection to the city; and
(3) The applicant for the parade permit has agreed to abide by the standards hereinafter set forth below which are necessary measures to promote the safety and welfare of the community.
(Prior Code, § 13-17) (Ord. passed 11-26-1991)