(A) Time requirement. Upon receipt of an application of a parade permit, the Chief of Police shall furnish to the applicant within three days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, appropriate approval or denial of the permit.
(B) Alternate route. Should the application for a parade permit reveal that the parade route requested will interfere with orderly flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, the Chief of Police shall have authority to establish a reasonable alternate route and regulate the width of the parade.
(C) Denial. The Chief of Police shall deny a parade permit when the parade for which the permit is requested would:
(1) Cross or use as a route, or as part of a route, any streets specifically prohibited from being used as a parade route;
(2) Begin during, or within two hours after the end of, a parade for which a permit has been granted and follow a route that passes within one-half mile of any point of the route of the parade for which a permit has been granted; or
(3) Unreasonable disrupt the orderly flow of traffic, and no reasonable means of rerouting traffic or otherwise meeting traffic needs is available.
(D) Revocation. The Chief of Police shall revoke a parade permit if:
(1) The parade fails to begin within 30 minutes of the appointed time of commencement; or
(2) The information contained in the application for a parade permit is found to be false in any material detail.
(E) Appeal. If the Chief of Police denies or revokes a parade permit, this action shall be final unless the applicant or permittee shall, within two days after the receipt of notice of the denial or revocation, file with the City Manager a written appeal. The City Manager shall, within 24 hours after the appeal is filed, consider all the evidence in support of or against the action appealed and render a decision either sustaining or reversing the denial or revocation. The decision of the City Manager shall be final.
(Prior Code, § 8-6)