(a) All organizations, associations or persons desiring to use any of the streets or public ways for the purpose of conducting a procession or parade shall, prior to the proposed time for holding such procession or parade, make application therefore to the City Manager designating the time and proposed route for such procession or parade. Application must be made at least ten (10) days prior to the planned event. The City Manager may issue to all persons or organizations so applying a permit stipulating the time, route and other conditions governing same. This section shall not apply to funeral processions.
(b) Any person desiring to use any sidewalk, street or public way of the City for the purpose of public assemblage or other lawful purpose, in such a manner as to preclude or interfere with the ordinary use of such street, sidewalk or public way, shall, in advance of the time of any proposed use, notify the City Manager of the time and place of such proposed use and the purpose therefor. Application must be made at least ten (10) days prior to the planned event. Before such use occurs, the City Manager shall issue a permit, if the use is one that is not unreasonably detrimental to the peace, health, morals and good order of the inhabitants of the City, provided that the applicant obtains a certificate of insurance providing liability insurance in an amount determined by the City Manager, but not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000), naming the City as an additional insured, and further provided that the applicant agrees to indemnify and save the City harmless from any and all claims, liability and damages arising from the use of the sidewalk, street or public way.
(c) The organization, association or person conducting a procession or parade upon the public way as noted in subsection (a) hereof, being the Applicant receiving the permit and acquiring the requisite insurance as noted in subsection (b) hereof, is to control the flow and route of such parade without interference by any other person, entity or association. Such control of the parade or procession is to be coordinated between the Permitted Applicant and the Wheeling Police Department regarding traffic control. Any interference subjects the violater to the General Penalty provisions of the Traffic Code, which includes a fine up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) and the potential for imprisonment as well as monetary fines for such interference. (Ord. 14388. Passed 11-7-12.)