Anderson Municipal Code Ch. 5.48 Licensing Fees and Regulations—amusements

Every person engaged in the business of renting out, placing or servicing, within the city, any coin-operated phonograph or other musical device, pinball machine or other mechanical game or billiards or pool tables, shall pay a license tax on machines located within the city in accordance with the following schedule:

For each pinball machine .....$12.00 per year

For each mechanical game .....12.00 per year

For each pool table or billiard table .....12.00 per year

For each coin-operated music machine .....20.00 per year

For each machine of any other type not a vending machine .....12.00 per year

(Ord. 611 § 1 (part), 1993: Ord. 305 § 1 (part), 1974: prior code § 12.34)

Any person carrying on or rendering any of the following services shall pay a license tax in accordance with the following schedule:

Astrologers, clairvoyants, faith healers, fortune-tellers, hypnotics, palmists, phrenologists, seers, spiritualists, tea leaf readers, or any similar service, any of whom demand or accept a fee for his or her own services .....$75.00 per day

Carnival .....75.00 per day

Circus .....75.00 per day

Rodeo .....75.00 per day

Automobile racing .....25.00 per day

Retail selling of foods, beverages, ice cream or snow cones on the streets or in conjunction with any carnival, circus, rodeo or other itinerant show or entertainment .....7.50 per day

Other itinerant show .....75.00 per day

Street vendor .....5.00 per day

(but not more than $25.00 per quarter)

(Ord. 611 § 1 (part), 1993: Ord. 326 § 1, 1974: Ord. 305 § 1 (part), 1974: prior code § 12.35)

Any person carrying on or rendering any of the following services shall pay a license tax in accordance with the following schedule:

Bowling alley .....$150.00 per year

Theater .....150.00 per year

Drive-in theater .....150.00 per year

Skating rink .....150.00 per year

(Ord. 611 § 1 (part), 1993: Ord. 305 § 1 (part), 1974: prior code § 12.36)

All places where billiard tables or pool tables are maintained for public use shall be and remain closed every day between the hours of two a.m. and six a.m.

(Prior code § 15.2 (part))

No owner, proprietor or operator of any such establishment shall permit a violation of Section 5.48.040 within his establishment.

(Prior code § 15.2 (part))

No person shall carry on or assist in carrying on any amusement or entertainment to which the public is invited or in which the public may participate at any time between the hours of two a.m. and six a.m.

(Prior code § 15.34)

Any person who desires to carry on or conduct such amusement or entertainment for one night only, during the hours prohibited by Section 5.48.060, may apply in writing to the sheriff for permission to do so. The sheriff may grant such permission to such applicant when in his discretion the conduct of such amusement or entertainment at such time shall not be detrimental to the public health, safety, morals or welfare. The sheriff shall either grant or deny such application within three days after such application has been presented to him, and if he does not grant the same within such period, such application shall be deemed to have been denied.

(Prior code § 15.35)

Any person who desires to carry on or conduct any such amusement or entertainment during the hours prohibited by Section 5.48.060 and for a longer period than one night shall file a written application therefor with the city clerk for presentation to the city council. Such application shall contain a detailed statement of the type of amusement or entertainment which the applicant desires to carry on or conduct and a statement of the reasons which in his opinion warrant the granting of the same. Such applications shall be filed with the city clerk at least five days prior to the date upon which the applicant desires the granting of such permission and five days prior to the meeting of the city council next succeeding the filing of such application. Thereupon the city clerk shall refer such application to the sheriff for investigation and his recommendation thereon. The city council may grant such permission to such applicant when, in its discretion, the nightly conduct of such amusement or entertainment will not be detrimental to the public health, safety, morals or welfare.

(Prior code § 15.36)