Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-01-08

public health, safety, moral
Ordinance be, and hereby is,
1. No outdoor motion picture
theater shall be hereafter erected,
constructed, operated or main
tanned within Montgomery County
without first obtaining a permit
from the Board of County Com
missioners of Montgomery County,
for which permit a license fee of
81 100000 per annum shall be
charged. For the purpose of this
Ordinance, unless the language or
context indicates that a different
meaning is intended, the words
"outdoor motion picture theater'
shall be construed as meaning any
open-air place of amusement or
recreation wherein pictures are
projected upon a screen, and for
the showing of which, or for en-
trance upon the premises where
such pictures are displayed, a
charge is made to the public.
2. Application for any sucn per-
NIT shall be made in aUritimg to the
Clerk to the Board of County Com
missioners, and no application for
an outdoor motion picture theater
permit shall be received by the
Clerk to said board until there
shall have been filed with him
proof of notice of such application
having been served upon all resi-
dent property owners and all adult
occupants of land located within
500 feet of the property for which
the application for such permit is
filed.
8. The County Commissioners of
Montgomery County shall issue no
permit for the erection, construc-
ton, operation or maintenance of
an outdoor motion picture theater
without first holding public hear
ing thereon, and notice of the time
and place thereof shall be pub
lished by the Clerk of the Board of
County Commissioners, in the
names of the County Commission
ers, once each week for three sue
cessive weeks previous to the date
of the hearing, in two weekly news
papers of general circulation in
Montgomery County, at the ex-
pense of the applicant or appli-
cants. Additional notice of such
public hearing shall be posted not
less than thirty days before the
date of the hearing upon the prop
erty for which the permit is ap-
piled by means of sign conspicu-
ously placed upon the property
within ten feet of each property
line fronting upon public high
way, printed in English, and made
of wood, metal or other durable
material. The said notice shall be
captioned as follows: NOTICE
! OF APPLICATION FOR OUT
DOOR MOTION URE
THEATER PERMIT FOR THIS
PROPERTY; and the said caption
shall be printed in letters at least 4
inches high. The posting shall be
done by the applicant or appli-
cants and shall be maintained BY
him or them until the date of the
hearing, and proof of such posting
shall be filed with the clerk of said
board at or before the hearing.
A. After holding the aforesaid
public hearing, the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners shall issue per-
nit for the erection, construction,
operation and maintenance of an
outdoor motion picture theater if
they shall find that the erection,
construction, operation and main
tenance thereof will not violate the
subsequent provisions of this Ordi-
nance.
5. No outdoor motion picture
theater shall hereafter be erected,
constructed, operated or main
tanned within Montgomery County
unless said outdoor motion picture
theater shall be located upon prop
erty fronting upon paved, public
highway for distance of not less
than 1,500 feet.
6. If any portion of the property
for which such permit is applied
lies within that portion of Mont
gomery County within the Mary
land Washington Regional District,
no outdoor motion picture theater
shall be erected, constructed, oper-
ated or maintained unless the en-
tire property lying within the
Maryland Washington Regional
District shall be zoned Glass I'D"
Commercial, or Class "E" Indus
trial, and no property in said
County located within the Mary
land Washington Regional District
shall be used, directly or indirectly,
for the ingress, egress, location,
construction or operation of an
outdoor motion picture theater, UNI
less such property is zoned for
commercial or industrial use.
7. No outdoor motion picture
theater shall be operated, con-
structed, erected or maintained
within Montgomery County unless
the following sanitary facilities
shall be adequately maintained
upon the premises:
(a) Separate rest rooms for
male and female patrons.
(b) Flush toilets and urinals of
a type approved by the County
Health Officer and in sufficient
numbers, within each male and fe-
male rest room, so that there will
he one such urinal or flush toilet
and one wash basin for every so
vehicles, computed upon the maxi
mum vehicular capacity of the
theater. 4
(c) All sanitary facilities shall
be connected to a public sewer;
provided, that if no public sewer is