§ 2.62.020. Definitions.  


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  • As used in this chapter:

    "Applicants" means those persons responsible for the organization of the proposed special event or filming, and who have applied for a special event or filming permit.

    "Established special event" means a special event which has occupied an identifiable time and place for the past two years running and which may reasonably be expected to occupy that time and place in the upcoming year.

    "Filming" means activity attendant to staging or shooting motion pictures, television programs (except current news programs), commercials and music videos.

    "Metropolitan events" are public events directly related to a recognized function of the metropolitan government and which are in substantial part initiated, financed and executed by the city.

    "Person" means an individual, or a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or any other group acting as a unit.

    "Special event" means a temporary outdoor public gathering reasonably expected to attract more than seventy-five participants and spectators, and which involves one or more of the following on public property or on private property where otherwise prohibited: (1) closing a street; (2) restricting access to public property; (3) sale of merchandise, food, or beverage; (4) erection of a tent larger than four hundred square feet; (5) installation of a stage, band shell, grandstand, bleacher, trailer, van or portable toilets for public use.

    "Street" means any public way, road, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, viaduct, bridge, and the approaches thereto, sidewalks or other public rights-of-way within the metropolitan government area.

(Ord. 97-983 § 1 (part), 1997)