A. Each circus or menagerie, before doing business in the city, shall obtain a license therefor, and pay a license fee as follows:
1. Where the charge for admission is twenty five cents ($0.25) or less, the fee shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) for each day, for one or more performances.
2. Where the charge for admission is in excess of twenty five cents ($0.25), the fee shall be one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for each day, for one or more performances, including street parade or parades.
B. Before a license required by subsection A of this section shall be issued, the person making application for the license shall file in the office of the city clerk a bond in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) with one or more sureties, which sureties shall be residents of the city or, if signed by a surety company, then a company authorized to do business in the state and in the county, which bond may be approved by the city clerk. The bond shall be conditioned that the licensee under this section will pay to the city any and all damages caused to the streets, highways, avenues, alleys, bridges, pavements, curbs and sidewalks in the city on account of the use of the streets by the licensee; the bond shall not be released except by action of the city council.
C. Each sideshow accompanying or following any circus or menagerie shall obtain a license, the fee for which shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per day, for one or more exhibitions. (Rev. Ord. 1540, Comp. 1941, p. L-4)