For use in this Chapter, the following terms are defined:
BILL: Any notice, poster, placard, announcement or advertisement except notices required by law.
JUNK DEALER: Any person engaged in collecting, storing, buying or selling junk. "Junk" means articles or materials that, because of age, deterioration or use, have lost their original utility or desirability but that by alteration, restoration or salvage may furnish an item or items of value.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: A place in which a public amusement is conducted for, engaged in, or performed by the general public and to which the general public is admitted or is in attendance. It does not include places that the general public is not free to enter and to which admission is restricted to members of a club, fraternal organization or religious or educational group.
OVER-SIZE LOAD CARRIER: Any person who undertakes to move a load more than thirteen and one-half feet (131/2') high, twelve feet (12') wide or heavier than allowed in chapter 321 of the Iowa Code on the public streets, alleys and property excluding State highways.
PAWNBROKER: Any person whose business consists primarily of buying personal property subject to the right of repurchase or redemption, or of receiving actual possession of personal property as security for loans with or without a mortgage or bill of sale. This definition shall not include banks, trust companies, building and loan associations and similar businesses.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, corporation or association of any kind.
PUBLIC AMUSEMENT: Any public dance hall, skating rink, fortune teller's place of business, billiard hall, bowling alley, shooting gallery, amusement center, circus or theater that is open to the public.
PUBLIC DANCE HALL: Any place of public amusement in which dancing is engaged in or performed, even though food is served and the operator holds a state restaurant license.
SECONDHAND GOODS DEALER: Any person, firm or corporation other than a pawnbroker or a junk dealer, who purchases, collects, trades, sells or deals in any secondhand goods, or used articles whatsoever, except for a person who sells or deals in antiques only.
SPECIAL EVENT: A single event or a series of events, to which the public is invited to watch, participate or listen, including, but not limited to, the following: motorized vehicle races or contests; carnivals, circuses, mechanical amusement ride, nondomesticated animal act or exhibition, and similar activities; any public amusement or event that will take place on a public right of way within the boundaries of the city of Knoxville or on other property owned or occupied by the city of Knoxville; outdoor shows, concerts and exhibitions; races, craft fairs, parades, soap box derbies, rallies, or other similar events; any public event requiring street closure which occurs on a city street, sidewalk, alley or other street right of way, and which is likely to obstruct, delay or interfere with the normal flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
THEATER: Any place of public amusement in which plays, moving pictures or other exhibitions are presented, except that it shall not include places in which lectures on scientific, historical or literary subjects are given. (1983 Code § 6-3-2; amd. Ord. 83-4, 12-5-1983; Ord. 11-04, 6-6-2011)