787.05 LICENSE FEES.

   No license to produce, conduct, operate or offer entertainment, as specified in the classes enumerated in Section 787.01 shall be granted until the applicant pays in advance a license fee in accordance with the following schedule:

   (a)   First Class. For houses having a seating capacity of 1,000 or more, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per year.

      (1)   For drive-in theaters having accommodations for 500 or more cars, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per year.

      (2)   For houses having a seating capacity of not less than 600 and not more than 1,000, one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.

      (3)   For houses having a seating capacity of 400 and not more than 600 the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per year.

      (4)   For houses having less than 400 seating capacity, the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.

      (5)   Private theatricals and entertainments of the first class, given for charity may be produced in unlicensed places.

      (6)   Concerts and musical entertainments consisting of vocal and/or instrumental music may be produced in unlicensed halls and the fee for such performances, if the seating capacity is over 350, shall be five dollars ($5.00) for each day on which such performance is given.

   (b)   Second Class. Seating capacity, 2,000 or less, seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for the first day and twenty dollars ($20.00) for each additional day; seating capacity, over 2,000, two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the first day and seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for each additional day.

   (c)   Third Class. The fee shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day.

   (d)   Fourth Class. The fee shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year.

   However, this chapter shall not extend to any exhibition by the pupils of any private or public school, or to any musical entertainment given by the members and for the benefit of any musical society, or to any exhibition of painting, engraving, sculpturing or fine art executed by a resident of the City, or to any concert or musical entertainment, fair, festival or lecture for the benefit of any benevolent group. (Ord. 88-507. Passed 7-22-88.)