(a) No person shall conduct any form of amusement at any permanent or temporary place of amusement or any itinerant form of amusement or maintain or operate a golf course or collect green fees in connection therewith, within the Municipality without a certificate of registration therefor as herein provided.
(b) Every person desiring to conduct any amusement at any permanent or temporary place of amusement or any itinerant form of amusement or to maintain or operate a golf course or charge or collect green fees in connection therewith, within the Municipality shall file an application for a permanent, temporary or itinerant certificate of registration, as the case may be, with the Finance Director. Every application for such certificate shall be made upon an application form prescribed, prepared and furnished by the Finance Director. Upon approval of the application by the Finance Director, the Finance Director shall issue such certificate upon the payment by the applicant of a fee of one dollar ($1.00).
(c) An amusement certificate of registration is valid only for the person in whose name it is issued and for the conduct of amusements at the place designated therein. It is not assignable. It shall be conspicuously displayed at the place for which issued during the period of the ticket sale and conduct of the amusement. All certificates for permanent places of amusement shall expire on the thirty-first day of December next following the date upon which they are issued. Certificates issued for permanent places of amusement under the provisions of this ordinance may be renewed annually before the first day of January upon application made to the Finance Director and the payment of a renewal fee of one dollar ($1.00). The Finance Director may allow each holder of a temporary certificate a credit upon the amount of taxes levied hereunder, in connection with the amusement conducted by him as shown by his due tax return, a sum not exceeding the amount of the fee paid to the Finance Director for his certificate.
(d) The Finance Director may suspend or after hearing revoke an amusement certificate of registration whenever he finds that the holder thereof has failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or any rules or regulations of the Finance Director prescribed, adopted and promulgated under this chapter. Upon suspending any amusement certificate of registration, the Finance Director shall require the holder thereof to surrender to him immediately all certificates of registration or duplicates thereof issued to him and the holder shall surrender promptly all such certificates to the Finance Director as required. Whenever the Finance Director suspends an amusement certificate of registration, he shall notify the holder immediately and afford him a hearing, if no hearing has been afforded and one is desired. After such hearing the Finance Director shall either rescind his order of suspension upon good cause, continue the suspension or revoke the certificate. Upon revocation of an amusement certificate of registration after a hearing before the Finance Director, or upon continuation of the suspension of an amusement certificate of registration after a hearing before the Finance Director, as the case may be, the holder thereof shall have the right to appeal within ten days from the date of such revocation or continuation of suspension to a board composed of the President of Council, Solicitor and Finance Director. Such board shall have the power, after full hearing, to confirm, reverse or modify such revocation or suspension. In case of appeal, the holder shall perfect his appeal by leaving notice in writing of his intent to appeal with the Finance Director.
(Ord. 106. Passed 5-14-57. )