(a) Place of Entertainment, Limited Live Performance, and Fixed Place Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit Fee Exemptions.
(1) The provisions of Section 1060.2 relating to a permit fee shall not apply to any Place of Entertainment, Limited Live Performance Locale, or Fixed Place Outdoor Amplified Sound Locale used exclusively for any of the following purposes: Places of Entertainment, Limited Live Performance Locales, or Fixed Place Outdoor Amplified Sound Locales that are operated by any public agency or by any educational, recreational, or social agency, or by any bona fide fraternal, charitable, religious, benevolent, or any other nonprofit organization having a regular membership association primarily for mutual social, mental, political, and civic welfare, to which admission is limited to members and guests and revenue accruing therefrom is to be used exclusively for the benevolent purposes of said organization and which organization or agency is exempt from taxation under the Internal Revenue laws of the United States as a bona fide fraternal, charitable, religious, benevolent, or nonprofit organization.
(2) Notwithstanding the above subsection (a)(1), the Steward or permittee for a Plaza as identified in Administrative Code Chapter 94
and a People Place as identified in Administrative Code Chapter 94A
shall be subject to the permit fee of Section 1060.2
.
(b) One Time Event and One Time Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit Fee Exemption and Waiver.
(1) Exemption. The provisions of Section 1060.2
relating to a permit fee shall not apply to a One Time Event or One Time Outdoor Amplified Sound Event permit application filed by an entity that has received City funds specifically for the event that is the subject of the permit application.
(2) Fee Waivers.
(A) Individuals. The Director may grant an individual applicant an exemption from paying the filing fee for a One Time Event or One Time Outdoor Amplified Sound Event Permit upon the applicant’s filing under penalty of perjury a declaration of financial hardship on the form provided by the Entertainment Commission. The form shall use the indigency standards set out in California Government Code Section 68632, as amended from time to time. The applicant shall submit the financial hardship declaration concurrently with the permit application.
(B) Nonprofit and Neighborhood Organizations. The Director may grant a nonprofit organization, neighborhood association, or similar community-based group an exemption from paying the filing fee for a One Time Event or One Time Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit for an event if (i) the proposed event is free and open to the public, and (ii) the filing fee is more than 25% of the total projected budget for the event.