[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Greensburg 6-3-1963 as Ord. No. 698. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
A.Â
PERSON
PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT
In this chapter, the following words and terms shall
have the meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
Any theatrical or dramatic performance, opera, concert, vaudeville
or motion picture show, circus or carnival or any other exhibition,
show or amusement whatever, of any nature or kind, for which an admission
fee is charged or for which money or other nature of reward is in
any manner demanded or received. The term "public entertainment" shall
not include any lecture on current affairs or on any scientific, religious
or literary subject; any exhibition of statuary, painting or handicraft
of any kind; any church, school or college affair; any musical or
other performance given for the entertainment of persons present at
any public eating or drinking place; or any performance or exhibition
conducted for benevolent or charitable purpose or sponsored or presented
by any nonprofit religious, educational or charitable corporation
or organization.
B.Â
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural,
and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
[Amended 12-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1646]
No person, either as principal or agent, shall
conduct or hold any public entertainment in the City of Greensburg
without first having obtained a license therefor from the Building
and Fire Code Enforcement Department. Such license shall state the
type of public entertainment for which it is proposed to be granted
and the term for which it is to be in effect. No person, under any
such license, shall conduct or hold any type of public entertainment
other than the type designated upon the license; nor shall any person
conduct any public entertainment under any such license except at
the place designated upon the license; nor shall any person, under
any such license, continue to conduct any public entertainment after
the expiration or revocation of any such license or during the suspension
thereof, provided that in any instance, the Building and Fire Code
Enforcement Department may defer or refuse to grant any such license
pending an investigation under the direction of the Mayor to determine
whether such public entertainment or the place where the same is proposed
to be held shall constitute a threat to the health, safety or morals
of the public.
[Amended 12-9-1991 by Ord. No. 1510; 12-21-1994 by Ord.
No. 1646]
The fee for every license to be issued under
this chapter shall be as set by the City Council, provided that the
proprietor or lessee of any hall, auditorium, theater or motion picture
theater may, instead of obtaining a daily license for every public
entertainment held therein, obtain a yearly license upon payment of
a fee as set by the City Council. Such yearly licenses shall be issued
upon a calendar-year basis, and no reduction shall be granted for
any such license applied for or issued after the beginning of any
calendar year, except that any license issued after June 30 of any
year shall be granted upon payment of a fee as set by the City Council.
All license fees payable under this chapter shall be for the use of
the city to recompense or partially recompense the city for expenses
incurred in issuance of such licenses and for additional expenses
incurred by the City by virtue of the presence of such public entertainment,
including inspections, investigations and traffic control. The holder
of every such license shall keep the same at the place where the public
entertainment authorized thereby is held and shall exhibit the same,
upon request, to any member of the Police Department or any officer
of the city.
A.Â
Any license granted by authority of this chapter may
be suspended or revoked by the Mayor in any instance where he shall
find that the holding of any such entertainment or the place where
the same is held or proposed to be held shall constitute a threat
to the health, safety or morals of the public.
B.Â
Whenever under the provisions of this chapter the
City of Greensburg is empowered to make a decision with respect to
the suspension or revocation of any license, any applicant for a license
aggrieved by said decision may, within ten (10) days following said
decision, file a written appeal therefrom with the City Council of
the City of Greensburg, whereupon the City Council shall promptly
conduct a hearing and affirm, modify or reverse the decision appealed
from. The decision of the City Council shall be final.
[Added 12-21-1994 by Ord.
No. 1646]
[Amended 12-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1646]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, for every such violation, upon conviction thereof
before any District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more
than six hundred dollars ($600.) or be imprisoned for a period not
exceeding ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment, provided
that each day that any violation shall exist or continue to exist
shall constitute a separate violation.
