[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Bridgeport 8-2-1955 by Ord. No. 219, approved 8-2-1955 (Ch. 88 of
the 1975 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 8-12-1975 by Ord. No. 419, approved 8-15-1975]
No person, either as principal or agent, shall
conduct within the Borough of Bridgeport, for gain, fairs, bazaars,
concerts, moving pictures, boxing matches, sparring exhibitions, circuses
or street parades in connection therewith, theaters, music or dance
halls, skating rinks, merry-go-rounds, moving picture places or other
entertainment or exhibitions; conduct an auction house; conduct a
transient retail business for the sale of merchandise specially brought
into this Borough for such sale and represented to be the stock of
a bankrupt or an assignee or of one about to quit the business of
damaged goods; or collect, sell, bargain for or peddle rags, junk,
paper or other secondhand articles of rubbish, without first having
obtained a license therefor from the Mayor of the Borough of Bridgeport.
[Amended 2-14-1984 by Ord. No. 475, approved 2-14-1984; 12-13-1988 by Ord. No. 505, approved 12-13-1988[1]]
Application for a license for public entertainment,
business or enterprise, as provided in this chapter, shall be made
to the Mayor, who shall have authority to issue the same in advance
of such entertainment, business or enterprise, and upon issuance of
such license, the fee, which shall be for the Borough of Bridgeport,
shall be paid to the Mayor by the person to whom such license is issued
or by his agent. The rates for such licenses shall be as set from
time to time by resolution by the Borough Council.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance removed specific
fees from the Borough's Code; the current fees resolution of the Borough
is on file in the office of the Borough Secretary.
The Mayor shall, monthly, make returns to the
Borough Council at its regular meeting of the licenses issued during
the preceding month, including the list of names and addresses of
licensees, and shall pay over such license fees to the
Borough Treasurer.
No license shall be required for any fair, entertainment,
exhibition or amusement given by or for the benefit of churches, local
fire companies, hospitals or other charitable organizations or institutions.
[Amended 8-12-1975 by Ord. No. 419, approved
8-15-1975; 3-14-1989 by Ord. No. 507, approved 3-14-1989]
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter before any Magisterial District
Judge shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs
of prosecution or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not
to exceed 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate
offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for such separate
offense.
