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725.01 PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS; PERMIT REQUIRED; SAFETY MEASURES.
   (a)   No person shall arrange for, promote or give any arts and crafts exhibition on public property which shall include all sales, services and performances incidental thereto without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Director of Public Safety who may grant such permit upon payment of fifty dollars ($50.00).
   (b)   No person shall arrange for, promote or give any public exhibition or performance called or-known as a stunt, such as climbing the front of a building or sitting on top of a flag pole or similar performance, without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Director of Public Safety, who may grant such permit upon the payment of ten dollars ($10.00).
   Any person giving or arranging for such performance, if a permit is granted therefor, shall provide and use in every case of such performance, and keep properly stretched in place, suitable netting or other like adequate protection under the performer. Such protection shall secure the performer and any person in the public highways or on private property from injury in case of accidental fall. (Ord. 63-78. Passed 7-5-1978.)
725.02 HOURS OF OPERATION OF AMUSEMENT PLACES.
   No person shall operate a musical ice cream bar, roller skating rink, ice skating/rink, moving picture theater, show, exhibition, performance or any other type of amusement place or establishment, or harbor or permit any person or persons to be or remain in any such amusement place or establishment within the City, between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 7:00 a.m. However, this section shall not apply to duly licensed public dances or dance halls, or to places licensed under the Ohio Liquor Control Law, nor shall this section be construed to prevent regular employees from performing necessary work within such premises.
(Ord. 4268. Passed 7-3-1944. )
725.03 OUTDOOR AMUSEMENT DEVICES; PROXIMITY TO PARK BOUNDARIES.
   No person shall operate in the City, in any outdoor amusement park or place, or upon any place where outdoor amusements are permitted, provided for, conducted or carried on, any roller- coaster, gravity railroad, scenic railway or waterway, shoot-the chutes, merry-go-round, carrousel, shooting gallery, loop-the-loop, razzle-dazzle, bump-the-bump, or similar device, or public open air dance hall, nearer than 500 feet from the boundary line of the property constituting such amusement park or place where outdoor amusements are permitted. However, if any such amusement park or place where outdoor amusements are permitted is located in a portion of the City devoted exclusively to manufacturing or mercantile establishments, and there is no residence erected, prior to the establishment of such amusement park or place, nearer than 500 feet to the boundary lines of such amusement park or place where outdoor amusements are permitted, then in such event the provisions of this section shall not apply.
(Ord. 1055. Passed 8-24-1914. )
 
725.04 PORTABLE AMUSEMENT RIDES; PERMIT REQUIRED.
   No person, firm or corporation, either as owner, lessee, manager, officer or agent, or in any capacity, shall operate or cause or permit to be operated within the City any traveling portable amusement rides or devices that are not affixed to apartment foundation without first obtaining from the Permit Clerk a permit authorizing such operation.
(Ord. 23-75. Passed 5-5-1975.)
725.05 PORTABLE AMUSEMENT RIDES; PERMIT APPLICATION.
   (a)   Applications for the permit required pursuant to Section 725.04 shall be made to the Building Division, shall be for a specified period of time, and shall be on forms prescribed and furnished by the City. Such application shall specify the name and address of the person, firm or corporation making such application, the place where such portable amusement rides or devices are to be operated, the description of each such rides or devices, the dates on which it is intended to operate such rides or devices and such other and further information as may be required by the City.
   (b)   Each applicant shall be charged with the duty of reporting any newly installed, portable amusement rides or devices or any substitutions made during the permit period.
(Ord. 23-75. Passed 5-5-1975. )
725.06 PORTABLE AMUSEMENT RIDES; PERMIT ISSUANCE; FEE.
   (a)   The Permit Clerk, upon the payment of a permit fee of ten dollars ($10.00), shall issue a permit pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and such application, upon determination by the Building Commissioner that the applicant is in compliance with Ohio R. C. 1711.11(H) and all Ohio Department of Agriculture rules and regulations relating thereto; that each rides or devices proposed to be operated by the applicant bears a current seal or emblem issued by the Ohio
Department of Agriculture and that a temporary electrical permit has been issued to the applicant.
   (b)   Each applicant shall have each such portable amusement rides or devices set up and installed so as to be ready for an inspection by the Building Commissioner not less than eight hours prior to the commencement of the operation of such rides or devices.
(Ord. 46-77. Passed 9-6-1977. )
725.07 PORTABLE AMUSEMENT RIDES; PERMIT REVOCATION.
   Every permit issued pursuant to Section 725.06 may be revoked and the Building Commissioner is hereby expressly authorized to revoke such permit in the event the permittee directly or indirectly permits the operation of any traveling, portable amusement rides or devices contrary to the provisions of this chapter, City ordinances or the laws of the State of Ohio.
(Ord. 23-75. Passed 5-5-1975.)
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