A. Submission of Application: Within five (5) days after the application for said permit is made, the applicant shall submit a copy of the application, together with other information as required by this Chapter, to the appropriate affected agencies or departments as hereinafter enumerated. No permit shall be issued, unless the respective agency or department has approved as to each condition.
B. Preliminary Approval: When any type of physical facility is required or subject to approval hereunder, preliminary approval may be granted based upon specific plans proposed and submitted by the applicant. All such facilities shall be in existence five (5) or more days before the event for which an application is submitted and shall be subject to inspection by the approving agencies or departments. Should the actual facility or construction fail to meet the standards approved in the proposed plans, such preliminary approval shall be withdrawn and any and all permits granted subject to such approval shall be withdrawn. Said approval shall be on forms provided and shall be filed with the Clerk of the District Court.
C. Conditions of Approval:
1. Sanitary Facilities: The Southwest District Health Department shall have the responsibility for approving all sanitation and related facilities to ensure that reasonable minimum standards have been or will be met by the applicant. In this regard, the application must provide the Southwest District Health Department with a sketch and other detailed information showing the type, number and location or proposed location of all toilets, washing facilities, water supply facilities, food preparation and food service facilities.
Said approval by the Southwest District Health Department shall indicate the number, type and location (when appropriate) of the toilet, washing and water supply facilities. If food is to be served on the premises, approval must be given as to the type of food preparation and food service facilities to be provided.
2. Fire Protection Standards: No permit shall be granted hereunder, unless the applicant has shown that the appropriate fire protection district officer has approved fire protection devices and equipment available. Such approval must extend to any building, tent, stadium or enclosure wherein or whereupon more than ten (10) persons may be expected to congregate at any time during the course of such entertainment, amusement or assembly for which a permit is hereunder required, and to potentially flammable material in the area, including but not limited to trees, grass and brush. If the site for which the permit is applied is located outside a fire protection district, the applicant must show approval from the office of the State Fire Marshal.
Approved minimum fire protection equipment for any type of motorized racing event shall include three (3) five (5) pound CO2 fire extinguishers.
3. Medical Services: The local Emergency Medical Service (EMS) having authority shall have responsibility for approving plans as to medical service required for the entertainment assembly. Each entertainment assembly shall have a minimum of one ambulance and a first aid station staffed by two (2) adult individuals trained in first aid techniques. (Exception if within ten (10) minutes of emergency medical services.)
All motorized racing events must have an ambulance with attendants present on standby at the start of all races and during all races and time trials, or the race or time must stop until the ambulance and attendants are present.
4. Public Safety: The applicant must submit his plan for public safety at the entertainment assembly to the Sheriff for his approval.
a. Adequate traffic control and crowd protection policing must have been contracted for or otherwise provided by the applicant. There shall be provided one traffic control person for each two hundred fifty (250) persons expected or reasonably expected to be in attendance at any time during the event.
b. The applicant shall submit the names and necessary background information on forms provided by the Sheriff for all traffic control and crowd control personnel to be utilized during the entertainment assembly for investigation by the Sheriff as to fitness. All such personnel must meet the following minimum standards in order to be approved as suitable by the Sheriff:
(1) Be twenty one (21) through sixty five (65) years of age.
(2) Be in good physical health.
(3) Never have been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.
(4) Either have received reasonable minimum training in law enforcement or have on the job experience in the law enforcement.
All of said policing personnel must wear an appropriate identifying uniform and must be on duty during the entire entertainment assembly, unless a relief schedule has been planned and approved. A relief schedule will be approved by the Sheriff only when sufficient policing strength on duty has been maintained to meet the above-described minimum strength standards.
It shall be the duty of said policing personnel to report any violations of the law to the Sheriff, his deputies or representatives and to take whatever action as can reasonably be expected of them to enforce the law.
5. Parking Facilities: The applicant shall provide the Sheriff with a scale drawing showing adequate parking facilities have been made available within or adjacent to the location for which the permit is requested. Such parking facilities shall provide parking space for one vehicle for every four (4) persons expected or reasonably to be expected to attend such event. Adequate ingress and egress shall be provided from such parking area to facilitate the movement of any vehicle at any time to or from the parking area. Provided, that should buses be used to transport the public to said event, it shall be shown that public parking or parking as described above is available at any site from which buses are scheduled to pick up persons to transport them to said event. (Ord. 1, 5-24-71, eff. 5-25-71; amd. Ord. 89, 10-28-2021)