(A) Each person, company, group or organization desiring to conduct, stage or give an event, circus, festival, menagerie, carnival, sideshow or exhibition on public property, or if there is necessity to close a public street, alley or sidewalk in association with an exhibition or event on private property, shall first obtain a permit issued by the City Manager and pay a permit fee of $50 or an amount established by separate City Council ordinance.
(B) An applicant for a permit to conduct such an exhibition or event shall apply to the City Manager for a permit no less than one week prior to the activity for which the permit is required. Such application shall be sworn and contain the following:
(1) Name of the sponsoring individual, company, group or organization and if an individual, a statement that they not have been convicted of a felony in any state;
(2) Name of the applicant authorized to submit the application;
(3) If a company, group or organization, the names of the organization’s officers and their titles and a statement that neither the company, group or organization nor any officer has been convicted of a felony in any state;
(4) Copy of a liability insurance coverage in the amount of $1,000,000 per incident with the city named as an additional insured;
(5) Date(s) and time(s) of the exhibition or event for which the permit is issued;
(6) Location of the exhibition, including, but not limited to, a site drawing indicating, the required fenced in area if beer and/or wine service and consumption are proposed and the location of vehicular barricades and delineated areas;
(7) Type and name of exhibition or event;
(8) A statement that adequate sanitary facilities will be provided in accordance with requirements of the City-County Health Department, if necessary;
(9) A statement that the sponsor of the exhibition or event shall provide grounds cleanup and restore the grounds where the exhibition or event was held to the same condition as existed prior to the exhibition or event, together with an acknowledgment and agreement that if the city is required to perform grounds cleanup and restoration due to the sponsor’s failure to do so, that the sponsor shall be responsible for any expense incurred by the city in so doing; and
(10) A bond or other surety of $50 or in an amount determined by the City Manager to be sufficient to cover replacement costs for public signage, barricades or other devices or equipment used in association with the event.
(C) The City Manager shall review an application and issue a permit, provided he or she deems that the exhibition or event for which the permit is required meets the following criteria:
(1) Is in a suitable location;
(2) Is properly insured and bonded; and
(3) Has no applicants or officers with a felony record in any state.
(D) No permit shall be issued for any exhibition or event for more than seven consecutive days unless otherwise permitted by City Council.
(E) No person, company, group or organization shall sell or otherwise provide any intoxicating liquor, beer or wine on any public property, street, alley or sidewalk in association with a permit issued under this section unless in an area delineated and approved by the State Department of Commerce, Division of Liquor Control and within the area of the public square. For administrative purposes of this section, the public square shall be defined as the street and fountain area of the Nelsonville Public Square, but not including any public sidewalk or any portion of Washington Street or Columbus Street. Any violation of this division (E) by any person, company, group or organization associated with permit issued under this section shall cause such permit to be invalidated and immediately revoked.
(F) No person, company, group or organization shall conduct an exhibition without a required permit.
(Prior Code, § 11.07.01) Penalty, see § 94.99