(A)
The Chief of Police shall determine whether and to what extent additional police protection (including additional emergency medical services) may reasonably be necessary for the public assembly for traffic control and public health and safety. The Chief of Police shall make this determination based on an objective consideration of the following factors (and in no case upon the speech content of the proposed public assembly or upon any anticipated public reaction to such speech content):
(1) The size, location, duration, time and date, composition, format, configuration, and number of anticipated participants in and anticipated spectators of the proposed public assembly;
(2) The expected sale of goods or services at the proposed public assembly;
(3) The extent to which the public assembly requires the closing of any street or sidewalk or portion thereof, taking into account the general traffic conditions in the area and existing traffic control devices;
(4) The need to detour, reroute, or otherwise preempt normal vehicular or pedestrian traffic upon any street or sidewalk or portion thereof to accommodate the proposed public assembly;
(5) The anticipated weather conditions at the time of the proposed public assembly; and
(6) The extent to which the proposed public assembly is reasonably likely to require emergency medical services or police protection in areas contiguous to or in the surrounding vicinity of the proposed public assembly.
(B) Persons engaging in public assemblies conducted solely and entirely for the purpose of freedoms protected under the First Amendment are not required to pay for additional police protection or additional emergency medical services, or to provide insurance.
(Ord. passed 9-12-06; Am. Ord. passed 12-13-16; Am. Ord. passed 6-11-19)
Penalty, see § 95.99