Bellingham Municipal Code, City of Bellingham, WA

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City of Bellingham Municipal Code

Title 6 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES, AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 08 BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS--SERVICES AND AMUSEMENTS

6.08.180 - CIRCUSES, WILD WEST SHOWS, TRAINED ANIMAL SHOWS AND MENAGERIES.

A. Every person, firm, association or corporation, exhibiting in the City any circus, wild west show, trained animal show, menagerie, circus and menagerie, or wild west show and menagerie, or a combination of any of them, or any amusement company traveling under any other name, presenting or advertising for exhibition, acts or features common to and usual in circuses, wild west shows, or trained animal shows, shall pay to the City for the privilege of exhibiting or conducting the same a license fee based upon maximum seating capacity of such exhibition according to the following schedule:

B. An additional license fee of $500 per day shall be paid for every sideshow, exhibition, entertainment or after show, in connection with any of the shows or exhibitions mentioned, when a separate fee is charged therefore.

C. Every person conducting, managing, or carrying on any procession or parade in connection with any of the shows or exhibitions set forth in this section and not having a license for any such show or exhibition within the City shall pay $500 for each procession or parade.

D. It shall be the duty of the Finance Director to issue to any such person, firm, association, or corporation, the license provided for in this section upon their presenting to him a receipt from the city treasurer showing the payment to such treasurer of the amount provided in this section together with the bond required by subsection G of this section. The application for such license shall be made under oath, which application shall set forth the maximum seating capacity of such exhibition.

E. No person, firm, association, or corporation shall exhibit or participate in the exhibition of any circus, wild west show, trained animal show, circus and menagerie, or wild west show and menagerie, or any combination of them, either as owner or proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, servant or employee thereof, or assist directly or indirectly in such exhibition, unless the license fee therefor is duly paid and a license for the exhibition of same shall have been duly issued to the person, firm, association or corporation, exhibiting the same, and is in force.

F. The provisions of this chapter are not intended to and shall not apply to persons presenting trained animals or wild west acts in theaters or where presented as a part of a regular vaudeville or theatrical entertainment.

G. At the time of granting said license and before any such person, firm, association, or corporation shall open for exhibition any circus, wild west show, trained animal show or menagerie, or any combinations thereof within the City, such person, firm, association, or corporation shall execute and deliver to the Finance Director a good and sufficient bond in the penal sum of $500 conditioned on the payment of all damages to the streets and alleys of the City by reason of their equipment, and upon the further condition to reimburse the City for any and all cost to which it may be put by reason of their failure to leave the grounds wherein they exhibited in a clean and sanitary condition, and for the payment to the City of the full amount of such license fee payable by such applicant according to the provisions of this chapter.

[Prior code §15.06.190]