(a) No license to produce, conduct, operate or offer any of the classes of entertainment enumerated in Section 709.01 shall be granted until the applicant first pays in advance a license fee in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) For entertainments of the first class:
Entertainment audience seating capacity 1 to 500: $150.00 per year
Entertainment audienceseating capacity 501 to 1,000: $300.00 per year
Entertainment audienceseating capacity 1,001 and over: $300.00 per year plus $30.00 per year for additional 100 seats or fraction thereof over 1,000
(2) Private theatricals and entertainments of the first class, given for charity, may be produced in unlicensed places.
(3) Concerts and musical entertainments consisting of vocal or instrumental music, or either, may be produced in unlicensed halls and the fee for each performance, if the seating capacity is over 350, shall be $20.00 for each day on which such performance is given.
(b) For entertainments of the second class, the license fee shall be as follows:
(1) Seating capacity 2,000 or less, $100.00 for the first day and $25.00 for each additional day.
(2) Seating capacity over 2,000 and less than 6,000, $300.00 for the first day and $100.00 for each additional day.
Seating capacity 6,000 or over, $400.00 for the first day and $125.00 for each additional day.
(c) For entertainments of the third class, the fee shall be $150.00 per day.
(d) For entertainments of the fourth class, the fee shall be $110.00 per week or fraction thereof.
(e) For entertainments of the fifth class, the fee shall be $55.00 per week or fraction thereof.
(f) For entertainments of the sixth class, the fee shall be $10.00 per week for each device or $2.00 per day for each device.
(g) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Former subsection (g) was repealed by Ordinance 197-83, passed March 15, 1983.).
(h) For entertainments of the eighth class, there shall be an annual fee of $200.00.
(i) For entertainments of the ninth class, the fee shall be $350.00 per year.
(j) For entertainments of the eleventh class, the fee shall be $10.00 per week per device, or $2.00 per day for each device.
(k) For entertainments of the twelfth class, the fee shall be five percent of the gross receipts of each air show. The Director of Finance shall have the right to have a representative in the box office or other ticket-selling facilities used in connection with such show to check the receipts and collect the aforesaid fees.
(l) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Former subsection (l) was repealed by Ordinance 197-83, passed March 15, 1983.)
(m) For entertainments of the fourteenth class, there shall be an annual fee of $300.00 for each rink.
(n) For entertainments of the fifteenth class, there shall be an annual fee of $150.00 for each gallery.
(o) For entertainments of the sixteenth class, the fee shall be 50¢ per auto parking space for the first 250 such spaces provided and 25¢ per auto space provided in excess of 250.
(p) For entertainments of the seventeenth class, the fee shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per week provided further that if such license fee is paid in advance for a whole season there shall be established a rate of three hundred dollars ($300.00) for the seasonal period.
(1952 Code § 25-5-9; Ord. 917-71; Ord. 145-76; Ord. 152-05. Passed 3-22-05.)