For the purposes of this chapter, a PUBLIC SKATING RINK shall be construed to mean any room, place or space open to public patronage in which skating, either roller skating, ice skating or otherwise, in which the public may participate or engage is carried on and to which admission may be had by the public by payment, directly or indirectly, of an admission fee or price for skating. PUBLIC SKATING as the term is used in these sections shall be taken to mean any skating wherein the public may participate by payment directly or indirectly of an admission fee or price for the skating or a fee for a membership in a club, and shall include any manner of holding or conducting the skating which may be participated in by the public through the payment of money either directly or indirectly, and including the events where a contribution may be paid in connection therewith either through direct solicitations or otherwise.
(1973 Code, § 22-1) (Ord. 258, passed 10-19-1959)