[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of West
Haverstraw 3-3-1971 as Secs. 3-96 through 3-102 of the
1971 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to give any exhibition or performance for money or to maintain any place of public amusement in the Village until such person shall have obtained a license therefor and shall have paid to the Village a fee as set forth in Chapter A255, Fees. Such fees shall apply to:
A.
Conducting or operating a circus or carnival.
B.
Any theatrical performance to which an admission fee is charged, not wholly conducted by a local society or association and not conducted upon premises licensed under Subsection C.
C.
Any person maintaining a building solely for theatrical
performances or other public exhibitions.
D.
Bowling alleys and shooting galleries.
E.
Parades.
F.
Other amusements, such as merry-go-rounds, riding galleries
and other amusements not otherwise provided for, for which an admission is
charged.
The annual licenses provided for by § 135-1C and D shall expire on the January 1 subsequent to their granting, and such license fees shall be payable in advance on January 1 of each year, or upon the date of the application therefor for the balance of the year up to the next first of January, and shall not be prorated.
No building or place shall be licensed for any public exhibition or
performance of any character until it shall have been inspected by the Chief
of Police of the Town of Haverstraw or other designated official with reference
to its means of exit and to its safety as a gathering place for an audience
and until the Chief of Police of the Town of Haverstraw or other designated
official shall have filed a written report with the Mayor recommending the
building or place as a safe place for a public gathering with safe and sufficient
means of exit; nor until such building or place shall have been inspected
by the Chief of the Fire Department of the Village as to its freedom from
danger from fire and as to its equipment of means for the extinguishment of
fire and until the Chief of the Fire Department shall have filed with the
Mayor a written report recommending such building or place as a safe place
for a public gathering by reasons of its freedom from danger from fire and
its protection against fire.
Every license required by this chapter shall be issued and signed by
the Mayor of the Village and shall specify the fee to be paid therefor, the
name of the licensee and the date of its expiration and shall be countersigned
by the Village Clerk, who shall keep a record thereof and of the amount of
the fee to be paid therefor. Upon presentation of such license to the Treasurer
of the Village so signed and countersigned and upon the payment to the Treasurer
of such fee, the Treasurer shall endorse thereon his receipt for the license
fee; and such license shall not take effect until the receipt of the Treasurer
shall have been endorsed thereon.
All buildings and places licensed for public exhibitions shall be at
all times subject to the inspection and regulation both of the Chief of Police
of the Town of Haverstraw and of the Chief of the Fire Department or other
designated official with reference to safety, proper means of exit, freedom
from danger from fire and protection against fire; and all licenses shall
be granted only upon the understanding that they shall at once be revoked
upon the filing with the Mayor of the report of either the Chief of Police
of the Town of Haverstraw or the Chief of the Fire Department or other designated
official that the licensed building or place is, for any reason therein stated,
unsafe for a public gathering.
[Amended 7-18-1984 by L.L. No. 2-1984]
Licenses for conducting or operating a carnival shall be granted only
to organizations or societies and shall not be granted for a period in excess
of six consecutive days. The Village Board may upon application grant an extension
of time for an additional six consecutive days. Licenses for carnivals shall
be so issued that a period of at least 14 days must elapse between the conclusion
of one carnival and the commencement of another. No organization or society
may obtain a license to conduct or operate more than one carnival in any ninety-day
period.
C.
Disposal. The contents of all chemical toilets must be
disposed of in a manner approved by the Superintendent of Public Works.
D.
Inspection. The Village Board of Trustees shall cause
to be inspected all chemical toilet installations to see that they comply
with the Public Health Law and Sanitary Code. The violation of any of the
above provisions shall be cause for the immediate revocation of a carnival
license by the Village Board of Trustees.
