(a) Whenever any person, firm or corporation applies to the Director of Finance for a license to operate an outdoor show, carnival or other entertainment, in addition to paying the requisite license fee, prior to issuing any such license the Director of Finance shall receive from the applicant the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00). The aforesaid amount shall be held by the City until the applicant has closed the activity for which the license was issued and until the Commissioner of Health, or a person designated by him, certified to the Director of Finance that the applicant has left such premises in such condition that they are clean and sanitary and so that the public health of the City will not be jeopardized thereby.
(b) In the event such applicant does not clean such premises and leaves the same in a condition which is unsatisfactory to the Commissioner of Health, the aforesaid deposit shall be used by the City for the purpose of causing the cleaning of such premises, and any surplus over and above the cost of such cleaning shall be held as a penalty forfeited by the applicant for not leaving such premises in a clean, sanitary condition.
(c) When the condition in which the applicant leaves such premises has been approved by the Commissioner of Health, the Director of Finance is authorized to return the aforesaid deposit to the applicant and to receive his receipt therefor.
(1952 Code § 25-5-5)