[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Stanford 7-9-1970
as L.L. No. 1-1970. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter is adopted for the purpose of protecting, preserving and
assuring the health, welfare, safety and morals of the residents and inhabitants
of the Town of Stanford and sojourners therein, as well as preventing riots,
disorderly crowds and/or assemblies therein, unsafe, unsanitary or other conditions
leading to creating, causing, inciting or making possible a threat to the
health, welfare and safety of the Town, its orderly administration and control
by duly elected, acting or authorized officers, agents and/or employees and
the prevention of the spread of disease and the creation of unhealthy conditions,
the violation of sanitary requirements, the elimination of excessive crowds,
traffic congestion and/or other such hazards to the public safety and welfare
and the preservation of the peace in said Town, its residents, inhabitants,
property owners, both public and private and sojourners therein, together
with the protection of public property in said Town and the general health,
welfare, safety and morals of the towns surrounding, adjacent or near to the
Town of Stanford, in the County of Dutchess and the state, county and Town
roads and/or highways leading thereto and therefrom.
No public or private assembly, group, gathering, crowd or congregation
of people within the confines of the Town of Stanford shall be permitted or
allowed in excess of 3,000 in number upon any property, land or parcel of
land, whether improved or not and whether contiguous or not, without a permit
therefor being obtained as hereinafter provided.
A.
Application for permit. The application for a permit
shall be in writing and signed by the applicant and shall be accompanied by
a fee of $100. It shall state:
(1)
The name and address of the applicant.
(2)
The name and address of each partner if the applicant
is a partnership.
(3)
The name and address of each officer and director if
the applicant is a corporation.
(4)
A complete description of the premises upon which the
public or private assembly, group, gathering, crowd or congregation is to
be located, and the proposed date or dates same is to be held, including site
plan for the utilization of such premises, showing parking areas, sanitary
facilities, curb cuts, manner and means of shelter, supervision and for granting
food and water supply, medical facilities and facilities for the prevention
of fire and, in addition thereto, such other requirements as are deemed necessary
by the below-mentioned agencies, whose approval must be secured before the
application is submitted to the Town Clerk of the Town of Stanford: the Planning
Board of the Town of Stanford, the Dutchess County Board of Health, the office
of the Sheriff of the County of Dutchess and the Fire District within which
the subject premises are located. Approval by such agencies shall be indicated
by endorsement on said application.
(5)
The name and address of the owner or owners of such premises.
B.
The application, after having been approved by said agencies,
shall be filed with the Town Clerk at least 10 days prior to the next regular
meeting of the Town Board. The applicant and all other parties interested
shall appear at said Town Board meeting. All such applications shall, after
investigation and after a public hearing, be approved or rejected by the Town
Board after which the application shall be filed with the Town Clerk and the
applicant notified in writing by the Town Clerk of the action taken thereon.
C.
The Town Clerk of the Town of Stanford, only upon approval
of such application by the Town Board, shall issue a permit.
D.
No such permit shall be secured, granted or given unless:
(1)
The applicant or applicants, or if a corporation, all
the officers thereof, shall have made, executed, acknowledged and delivered
to said Town Clerk a surety bond in form and content satisfactory to the Town
Attorney of the Town of Stanford, the same to be a surety bond in the penal
sum of not less than $50,000 to assure complete compliance with this chapter
and with any and all terms and conditions imposed by any of the aforesaid
agencies whose approval must first be secured. Said surety bond shall be signed
by the applicant or applicants as principals and signed by a commercial surety
company satisfactory to said Town Attorney as surety.
(2)
There shall be delivered to said Town Clerk a liability
insurance policy naming said Town as an insured in the amounts of $500,000/$1,000,000
and covering the assembly as set forth in the application. Said policy shall
be in form and content and written by a company all satisfactory to said Town
Attorney.
Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation who shall
violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than
$1,000 for each violation or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more
than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.
