874.03 LICENSE REQUIRED.

(a) “Amusement ride” means any mechanical device, aquatic device, or combination of devices that carries or conveys passengers on, along, around, over, or through a fixed or restricted course or within a defined area for the purpose of giving its passengers amusement, pleasure, or excitement. “Amusement ride” includes, but is not limited to, carnival rides, bungee jumping facilities, and fair rides but does not include passenger tramways as defined in Ohio R.C. 4169.01 or amusement rides operated solely at trade shows for a limited period of time.

(b) “Carnival” means an event or enterprise that offers amusement or entertainment to the public by means of one or more amusement rides and/or concessions.

(c) “Carnival worker” means a person who is employed by or at a carnival or fair to manage, physically operate, or assist in the operation of an amusement ride or amusement attraction when it is open to the public.

(d) “Concession” means any food, drink, show, game, or novelty stands operation at a public event.

(e) “Concession worker” means a person who is employed by or at a public event to manage, physically operate, or assist in the operation of a concession when it is open to the public.

(f) “Employ” means to hire, to make use of, to contract with, to subcontract with or to engage the services of a person, whether paid or unpaid, within the City of London.

(g) “Fair” means an event or enterprise principally devoted to the exhibition of products of agriculture or industry in connection with which amusement rides or concessions are operated.

(h) “Festival” means an event or enterprise that offers amusement or entertainment to the public by means of one or more amusement rides and/or concessions.

(i) “Nonprofit corporation” means a domestic or foreign corporation that is formed otherwise than for the pecuniary gain or profit of, and whose net earnings or any part of them is not distributable to, its members, directors, officers, or other private persons.

(j) “Operator” means a person or entity, or the agent of a person or entity, who owns or controls or has the duty to control the operation of an amusement ride, an amusement attraction or concession at a public event. “Operator” includes an agency of the State or any of its political subdivisions.

(k) “Public benefit corporation” means a corporation that is recognized as exempt from Federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, or is organized for a public or charitable purpose and that upon dissolution must distribute its assets to a public benefit corporation, the United States, a state or any political subdivision of a state, or a person that is recognized as exempt from Federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

(l) “Public event” means any event open for the general public including, exhibitions, fairs, festivals, run/walks, bike races, parades, entertainment, cause-related fundraising, block parties, and leisure events. Such events may be a one-time or periodic, free or ticketed, cultural, charitable or cause-related, and conducted for the purpose of attracting revenue, support, awareness, and/or for entertainment purposes, and created by and/or for the general public and held on public property.