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(A) The application for a parade permit shall contain the following information and be signed by the applicant and sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oaths:
(1) The name, address, and telephone number of the applicant and of any other person, organization, firm, or corporation on whose behalf the application is made;
(2) The date and time of day requested for the parade;
(3) The parade’s commencement time, the specific route to be traveled, and the starting and termination points;
(4) The estimated number of persons to participate in the parade and the estimated number of animals that will be used; and
(5) The estimated number, if any, of animals and riders, animal-drawn vehicles, floats, motor vehicles, motorized displays, and marching units or organizations such as bands, color guards, and drill teams.
(B) (1) An application for a parade permit must be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee of $25, or other amount deemed appropriate by the Municipal Court.
(2) The Chief of Police may waive the application fee if he or she finds, in response to an affidavit by the applicant, that the applicant is unable to pay the application fee because of indigence.
(Prior Code, § 8-4)
(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)
In granting a permit pursuant to this chapter, the Common Council may include therein such prohibitions, conditions, restrictions, and limitations as it may consider appropriate, under the general police powers of the city, to safeguard the good government and the peace, safety, health, and welfare of the city and the inhabitants thereof, as well as to maintain law and order and acceptable traffic conditions within the city, and it shall be unlawful for any person covered by the permit to violate or fail to comply with any such prohibition, condition, restriction, or limitation. The provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be a part of each parade or demonstration permit, whether or not so stated in the permit.
(Prior Code, § 8-7) Penalty, see § 10.99
Prior to the granting of a permit pursuant to this chapter, and as a condition precedent for the granting of such permit, the Common Council may require that the person named in the application as the one to be responsible for the conduct of the parade or demonstration shall give bond to the city, in such amount and with such surety as the Common Council may consider necessary, conditioned upon the full satisfaction of all judgments and decrees which may result by reason of any negligent or unlawful act or omission of any person participating in such parade or demonstration and included within the permit; with the further condition that he or she will save the city harmless from all claims and demands whatever which may arise by reason of such parade or demonstration; and with the further condition that he or she will pay the city for all extra expenses incurred for clearing the streets, sidewalks, and public places of litter and waste matter resulting from such parade or demonstration and for the cleaning and repair of public property which may be soiled or damaged by acts of vandalism during the period of organizing and holding the parade or demonstration and within six hours thereafter when such acts of vandalism are reasonably attributable to the holding of such parade or demonstration.
(Prior Code, § 8-8) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) No person parading or demonstrating pursuant to a permit issued under the provisions of this chapter shall carry any dangerous weapon; provided, that the Common Council may, in the exercise of sound discretion, include in such permit such variations from this division (A) as it may consider appropriate for members of color guards, drill teams, lodges, and other persons by whom the display of weapons upon the occasion of such parade or demonstration would not arouse anxiety on the part of spectators or constitute a threat to the maintenance of law and order and the preservation of the public peace.
(B) No person parading or demonstrating pursuant to a permit issued under the provisions of this chapter shall cause, or suffer to be caused, any vicious or apparently vicious animal to participate in or accompany such parade or demonstration; provided, that the Common Council may, in the exercise of sound discretion, include in such permit such variations from this division (B) as it may consider appropriate for circus parades and similar events.
(Prior Code, § 8-10) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) No person parading or demonstrating pursuant to a permit issued under the provisions of this chapter shall carry or display any sign, pennant, sticker, or other device which contains language or illustrations that is likely to cause an immediate violent response from the person to whom the message is addressed. No sign shall exceed a width of 24 inches or a height of 36 inches.
(B) The penalty for violating this section can be found in § 10.99.
(Prior Code, § 8-11) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Indecent language, see § 130.040
Signs defined; what constitutes as a sign, see § 157.047
Parades and demonstrations held pursuant to a permit issued under the provisions of this chapter which become, or which reasonably appear to present an imminent threat to becoming, a riot, rout, or unlawful assembly shall be dispersed forthwith by the city police or by any law enforcement officer who may be present, and persons who are commanded to disperse by any law enforcement officer shall promptly obey such command and peacefully disengage themselves from such parade or demonstration and leave the scene thereof, and persons who fail to obey such command shall be subject to immediate arrest.
(Prior Code, § 8-12) Penalty, see § 10.99
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