(a) Each person desiring to conduct a Fourth of July block party must file with the finance director an application and detailed drawing to scale containing the information described in Section 9.120.020(5), no less than thirty days prior to July 4th.
(b) Each applicant must submit a clean-up deposit in an amount set by resolution of the city council, which shall be returned provided that all trash, expended fireworks, and any and all other remnants of the block party have been timely removed from the area of the street upon which the block party was conducted.
(c) Each application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee in such amount as may be established and amended from time to time by the city council
(d) Each application must be filed by an owner-occupant, eighteen years of age or older, whose residence is located on the cul-de-sac street upon which the block party is to be conducted. The applicant shall be the party host and shall be personally responsible for the conduct of party attendees.
(e) Each applicant shall execute an indemnity protecting the city against any and all claims arising out of the issuance of a block party permit to the applicant.
(f) Following the filing of a timely, complete application, a city representative will inspect the proposed location and will prepare a verbal or written report which shall be considered by the permit review board in determining whether or not a permit may be granted. Thereafter, the permit review board will consider all facts set forth in the application to ensure that, as proposed, the block party would be in compliance with all requirements of this chapter and that all risks to the public health and safety have been minimized. Based upon that evaluation, the permit review board shall deny, grant, or conditionally grant a block party permit, and that decision shall be final.
(Ord. 546 § 1 (part), 2000).