[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Geddes 4-8-1974
as Ch. 19 of the 1974 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person, class of persons, firms, corporations or partnerships shall
exhibit, manage, conduct or operate any circuses, theaters, motion-picture
houses, shows or other exhibitions or performances, the keeping of billiard
or pool rooms, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, skating rinks, amusement
parks or other similar places of amusement, for money or for hire, or the
giving of exhibitions, performances or entertainment in any place in the Town
of Geddes without first being granted a license by the Town Clerk of Geddes,
New York.
A license may be granted only on a written application on forms prescribed
by the Town Board and duly filed with the Town Clerk.
There shall be a license fee for such a license, and the amount of the
fee for such a license shall be fixed by the Town Board at such an amount
as it deems proper, not exceeding the sum of $150 for a single exhibition
or single operation of a race track, park, hall or rink, and such a license
shall be signed and issued by the Town Clerk upon payment to him of the fee
prescribed by the Town Board subject to the provisions of § 137
of the Town Law.
The license shall specify the object and length of time for which it
has been granted.
It shall be the duty of the person or corporation so licensed to keep
good order in and about his place of exhibition or amusement, and for that
purpose to keep, at his own expense, a sufficient police force.
No license shall be required, however, for dancing parties or balls
given for purposes of charity, nor for musical parties, concerts, theatrical
performances or exhibitions of painting or statuary given or made by citizens
of the town, who shall not make such exhibitions, musical parties, concerts
or theatrical representations for a business or profession.
It shall be the duty of the person, firm or corporation giving any exhibit
hereinbefore described, in any hall, theater or assembly hall, to provide
necessary exits therefrom, to keep such exits unlocked during performances
and the passageway and stairs from such exits to the streets adequately lighted.
Any person, firm or corporation exhibiting a circus or similar show
within the limits of the town and paying a license fee therefor, as provided
in this chapter, shall not be required to pay a fee for any permit for any
parade upon the streets of the town incidental to such circus or similar show,
but in case such circus or similar show is not exhibited within the limits
of the town and no license fee paid therefor, then the person, firm or corporation
obtaining such permit for a parade upon the streets of the town shall pay,
upon obtaining same, a fee therefor, the amount of which shall be fixed by
the Town Board, and such permit shall be signed and issued by the Town Clerk
and signed by the Supervisor.
No person shall, within the town, appear in a state of nudity or in
dress not belonging to his or her sex or in indecent or lewd dress, or shall
make an indecent exposure of his or her person, or shall sell or offer for
sale any indecent or lewd book, picture or other thing, or shall exhibit or
perform any indecent or immoral play or other representation, or shall exhibit
or cause or permit to be exhibited on any billboard, window or in any public
place in the town any lewd or obscene picture or illustrated paper containing
a lewd or obscene picture or printed matter.
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No undertaker or other person shall exhibit any coffin,
shroud or other habiliment of the grace upon any sidewalk, in any show window
or other place where the same may be observed by anyone passing upon any street
or sidewalk of the town.
