Each application for a license under this chapter shall be made upon a blank furnished by the city and shall be accompanied by the affidavit of two freeholders and shall affirmatively show by the application and affidavit that the applicant is a person or good moral character and reputation in the community in which he or she lives; that the applicant has not within five years prior to the making of the application been convicted of a felony or gross misdemeanor. The application shall be verified and shall contain the name and address of the person, persons, committee, organization, firm or association who are to give, hold and conduct the public skating, the time and place where skating is to be held, and the area of the skating rink where the skating is to be conducted. No license shall be granted to any person of bad character or who has been so convicted as aforesaid, nor to any person who is the keeper of a disorderly house of any kind, nor for any place having any so-called “private apartments” or “private rooms” furnished or used for any other than legitimate and lawful business purposes which adjoin the skating rink or which may be reached by stairs, elevator or passageway leading from the skating place. No license shall be issued unless the City Council is satisfied that the place where the public skating is to be given or held is properly ventilated and is equipped with necessary toilets, wash rooms and lighting facilities, and that the place is not likely to become a public nuisance or detrimental to public morals, and no license shall be issued until the approval of the Chief of Police and the Fire Chief thereto have been procured in writing. At the time the application shall be filed with the City Clerk, there shall be paid to the City Treasurer a license fee in an amount as the City Council may determine from time to time by resolution.
(1973 Code, § 22-4) (Ord. 258, passed 10-19-1959; Ord. 262, passed 5-2-1961; Ord. 338, passed 4-11-1977)