The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-03-20

license fees shall be as follows:
For each circus or tented show,
menagerie OF equestrian ex-
hibition, first day. $500
Each additional day. .......... 1000
For any show, parading the streets of
Oakland where the performance
is given outside the town limits,
there shall be charged a license
fee equal to one-half of the license
fee for showing within said lin
its.
For ordinary tent shows not en-
braced in the above:
FIRST DAY ...";.; .......... .$lO.OO
Each additional day. 500
For each theatrical show using a
tent:
First day .................. $500
Each additional day. ESQ
For theatricals or shows using the
atre or other building:
First day ::...,. ............ $3.50
Each additional day. ..... 200
For moving picture theatre:
FER DAY 49,. ............ 9z.oO
Per week .....,.. 1000
For all other exhibitions or shows of
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embraced above:
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For each merry-go-round, ferris
wheel or other similar device, operated
independently of regular ordinary
show or carnival, for each device, Ii :
cense fee:
Per week NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $1,000
For conducting, managing or oper-
ating, either as licensee, manager,
agent or proprietor, any carnival hav-
ing not more than ten shows, conces-
sions or amusement devices of any
kind, license fee:
Per week $4,000
For each additional concession, show
or amusement device of any kind,
above ten as hereinbefore stated, IL
cense fee:
Per week $500
SECTION 4. No person shall offer
or solicit for Except at a regularly
established place of business) any
magazine or periodical of any descrip-
ton, or solicit for the enlarging of
pictures or solicit for any other pur-
pose whatsoever within the corporate
limits of the town of Oakland, or So
licit money for any organization or
enterprise whatsoever without first
having obtained a permit therefor in
writing from the Mayor or lin
the absence of the Mayor the Presi-
dent of the Mayor and Town Council.
SECTION 5. Any of the licenses
issued under the foregoing sections
may be revoked by the Mayor and
Town Council of Oakland at any time
upon their own motion, or upon COM
plant in writing of any person or per-
sons, after hearing has been ac-
corded the said licensee before the
Mayor and Town Council of Oakland,
upon at least ten days written notice
to the said licensee of the time and
place of said hearing, notifying him
to appear at such time and place and
to show cause, if any the said licensee
be revoked. If in the opinion of the
Mayor and Town Council a licensee
has so conducted his or her business
as to disturb the peace and good Of
der of the neighborhood, or has been
guilty of violation of law in connec-
ton Herewith, has permitted said bus
mess to become a public nuisance, or
is not, in the opinion of the Mayor
and Town Council of good moral char
scter, or if said Mayor and Town
Council for any other good reason
shall consider it best to revoke said
license, then said license shall be re-
voked.
SECTION 6. The Mayor and Town
Council shall have the right and au-
thority to refuse any license applied
for under this ordinance whenever in
their opinion the business or location
of the same is not proper one, TAX
ing into consideration the peace and
good order of the neighborhood, the
conditions at the proposed location
and the general welfare of the town
of Oakland.
SECTION 7. All licenses granted
under this ordinance on yearly Ii
cense fee shall run from the first day
of May and expire on the last day of
April following, provided however,
that all yearly licenses issued during
the year shall be for the unexpired
portion of the same, and the licensee
shall pay proportionately therefor.
SECTION 8. Any person or per-
sons, firm or corporation offending
against the provisions of this ordi-
nance or any of the aforegoing pro-
visions of any section or subsection
of the same, shall be fined upon con-
viction not less than one ($1.00 dol
lar nor more than twenty-five ($25.00)
dollars for each offense, and each sale
shall be considered a separate and
distinct offense. Any person so con-
victed shall, upon failure to pay said
fine and costs, be confined in the Coun-
ty Jail until said fine and costs are
paid, but not exceeding thirty (30)
days for any conviction.
SECTION 9. And be it further en-
acted and ordained, That the afore-
going ordinance shall take effect from
the date of it's passage.
Passed and approved March Bird,
1880.
GROVER C. STEMPLE, Pres't,
of the Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland, Maryland.
L. M. FRALEY, Mayor.
Attest:-A. G., ROSS, Clerk.