A. License Required; Fee:
1. No person shall permit, maintain, promote, conduct, advertise, act as entrepreneur, undertake, organize, manage or sell or give tickets to an actual or reasonably anticipated assembly of five hundred (500) or more people, whether on public or private property unless a license to hold the assembly has first been issued by the Twin Falls County commissioners, application for which must be at least sixty (60) days in advance of the assembly. A license to hold an assembly issued to one person shall permit any person to engage in any lawful activity in connection with the holding of the licensed assembly.
2. A separate license shall be required for each location in which five hundred (500) or more people assemble or can reasonably be anticipated to assemble; the fee for each license shall be as set by the board of county commissioners of Twin Falls County.
B. Ticket Sales: A license shall permit the assembly of only the maximum number of people stated in the license. The licensee shall not sell tickets to nor permit to assemble at the licensed location more than the maximum permissible number of people.
C. Location Of Event: No license shall be issued to any anticipated assembly of five hundred (500) or more people where the proposed location is within one-fourth (1/4) mile of the mean high water mark of the Snake River and Rock Creek, or where said location may be hazardous, dangerous or detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare unless appropriate safety provisions have been met.
D. Exceptions:
1. This chapter shall not apply to any regular established, permanent place of worship, stadium, athletic field, arena, auditorium, coliseum, schools or other similar permanently established place of assembly for assemblies which do not exceed by more than two hundred fifty (250) people the maximum seating capacity of the structure where the assembly is held.
2. This chapter shall not apply to government sponsored fairs held on regularly established fairgrounds nor to assemblies required to be licensed by other ordinances and regulations of the county, nor to assemblies within any incorporated municipality within the county. (Ord. 150, 4-26-1999)