§ 5-17.10. Action on permit application: Permit conditioning or denial of permit.

Grounds for permit conditioning or denial. The following factors shall be mitigated by imposition of reasonable permit conditions pursuant to Section 5-17.14 herein to allow for adequate protection of event participants given the number of City Police Officers reasonably available to monitor the event. If such reasonable conditions cannot be imposed however, the Chief of Police shall deny an application for a permit required by this chapter only if the Chief of Police determines from the facts that:

(a)

The person applying for the permit has failed to provide supplemental application information requested by the Chief of Police or has otherwise failed to complete the application;

(b)

The information contained in the application, including contained supplemental application information requested by the Chief of Police, is found to be false in any material respect;

(c)

An application for another event to be held on the same date as that requested by the applicant has been previously filed or approved, and such other event is so close in time and location to the event proposed by the applicant as to cause undue traffic congestion or to place the City in a position of being unable to meet the needs for police services for both events;

(d)

The time, route, or size of the event will substantially interrupt the safe and orderly movement of traffic contiguous to the site or route of the event or disrupt the use of a street at its peak traffic time;

(e)

The concentration of persons, animals or vehicles at the site of the event or at the site of an assembly or disbanding area around the event will prevent proper police, fire or ambulance services to areas contiguous to the event;

(f)

The size of the event will require the diversion of so great a number of City police officers to ensure that participants stay within the boundaries or route of the event, to protect participants in the event, as to cause police protection to the rest of the City to be seriously jeopardized, provided, however, that nothing herein authorizes the denial of a permit because of the need to protect participants from the conduct of others if reasonable permit conditions can be imposed;

(g)

The size and nature of the event combined with the reasonably available number of City police officers and other personnel is not sufficient to ensure the safety of the participants or the attending public;

(h)

The event consists of a parade moving along a route which will not move from its point of origin to its point of termination in three (3) hours or less;

(i)

The location of the event will substantially interfere with construction or maintenance work previously scheduled to take place on or along the City street, parking facility, sidewalk or other public right-of-way to be occupied by the event;

(j)

The event will occur at a time when a school is in session and along a route or at a location adjacent to the school or a class thereof, and the noise created by the activities of the event will substantially disrupt the educational activity of such school or class;

(k)

The decorative material on parade floats is not noncombustible or flame retardant or motorized parade floats and towing apparatus are not provided with a minimum 2-A, 10-B:C rated portable fire extinguisher readily accessible to the operator as provided in Uniform Fire Code Section 11.304;

(l)

The application is not timely submitted and there is insufficient time to investigate and process the application pursuant to the timelines herein.

(§ 2, Ord. 781, eff. August 24, 1992)