(a) License Required; Exceptions. No person shall exhibit any public show, natural or artificial, curiosity, invention or production or theatrical performance, for money or other reward within the corporate limits, without first having obtained a permit, provided that lectures on scientific, historical and literary subjects shall not come within the provisions of this chapter.
(1957 Code Sec. 575.01)
(b) License Regulations Generally; Fees. Before any person shall be permitted to exhibit within the corporate limits for money or other reward, any public show, natural or artificial, curiosity, invention or production, or theatrical or public entertainment of any kind not prohibited by laws of the State, such person shall apply to the Mayor or, in his absence or disability, the Auditor, for a permit for such exhibition. The Mayor or Auditor shall grant and issue such permit, specifying the time such exhibition may continue in the City, on receiving from the person thus applying such sum of money as such officer shall assess for the privilege of such exhibition, which assessment shall in no case exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) per day, nor be less than five dollars ($5.00) per day, for each show, public exhibition or performance, whether the same be exhibited under a tent or canvas, or in a room or hall kept for that purpose within the limits of the corporation.
(c) Skating Rinks.
(1) Before any person within the City shall be permitted to run, open, conduct or manage a skating rink for money or other reward, such person shall apply to the Mayor, or, the Auditor, for a license or permit to run, open, conduct and manage such rink.
(2) The Mayor or Auditor shall not deliver such license or permit to any person until he has received for the use of the City such sum as he may demand. This sum, however, shall in no case exceed one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) nor be less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the term of one year or any part thereof, for each and every skating rink or building used for that purpose.
(d) Opera and Theater Houses.
(1) The Mayor is empowered to license any hall or opera house wherein is held or exhibited any theatrical performance, concert, panorama, drama or picture show or motion pictures, excepting literary entertainments for the benefit of some charitable purpose, for one year, upon the application of the proprietor, owner, lessee or manager thereof, upon the payment of thirty dollars ($30.00) if the seating capacity of the public hall or opera house is less than 300 persons, forty dollars ($40.00) if the seating capacity is 300 persons and less than 400 persons, fifty dollars ($50.00) if the seating capacity is 400 persons or more, and to renew the license annually upon a like application and the payment of the sum thereafter in accordance with the above.
(2) No proprietor, owner, lessee or manager of a hall or opera house shall fail to take out and apply with the Mayor for a license, before any of the entertainments or performances named are held in such hall or opera house.
(Ord. 100-1976. Passed 9-13-76.)