For the purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings indicated unless their context clearly requires otherwise.
APPLICANT. Any person or organization that seeks a special event permit from the city to conduct, organize, or sponsor an event governed by this section. An applicant must be 18 years of age or older.
ATHLETIC EVENT. An occasion in which a group of persons collectively engage in a sport or form of physical exercise on a public street, sidewalk, alley or other public right-of-way, which obstructs, delays, or interferes with the normal flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, or does not comply with traffic laws and controls. ATHLETIC EVENTS
include bicycle and foot races, bike-a-thons, walk-a-thons, and other organized walks.
CITY ADMINISTRATOR. The City Administrator in consultation with police and relevant department heads.
MOTORCADE. Any organized procession containing ten or more vehicles, except funeral processions, upon a public street, sidewalk, alley or other public right-of-way.
PARADE. Any march or procession consisting of people, animals, bicycles, vehicles or combination thereof, except funeral processions, on any public street, sidewalk, alley or other public right-of-way, which obstructs, delays or interferes with the normal flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, or does not comply with traffic laws or controls.
SPECIAL EVENT. Any parade, fair, show, festival, carnival, tent sale, rally, block party, filming of movie, video or television show, motorcade, run, bike-a-thon, race, walk, athletic event, or other attended entertainment or celebration that is to be held, in whole or in part, upon publicly owned property or public right-of-way, or if held wholly upon private property, but will nevertheless affect or impact the ordinary and normal use by the general public of public property or public rights-of-way within the vicinity of the special event. SPECIAL EVENT shall also mean any activity to be held, in whole or in part, upon publicly owned or controlled property or public rights-of-way, where merchandise or services are offered for sale, whether by for profit or nonprofit organizations. Events held at the Civic Center pursuant to a rental arrangement under § 33.14 of the City Code shall not be considered SPECIAL EVENTS.
(Ord. 697, passed 7-10-2018)