§ 6.32.040. Nashville Arena—Area regulations.

A.

1. The sale or offering for sale of any food, goods or personal property is prohibited, within the area specified by this subsection, on any date whereon an event has been duly scheduled in the Nashville Arena. The prohibition includes all times used for preparation and removal of any material before and after the event and all times during the event. Such sale or offering for sale of food, goods or personal property is prohibited upon the streets and sidewalks in the area of the metropolitan government surrounding the Nashville Arena, and more particularly described as follows:

 Beginning at the northeast corner of Broadway and 5th Avenue South and proceeding south along the east side of 5th Avenue South to the southeast corner of Demonbreun Street and 5th Avenue South, thence proceeding west along the southern side of Demonbreun Street to the southwest corner of Demonbreun Street and 6th Avenue South, thence proceeding north along the western side of 6th Avenue South to the northwest corner of 6th Avenue South and Broadway, thence proceeding east along the northern side of Broadway to the northeast corner of Broadway and 5th Avenue South.

2.

This subsection shall not apply to individuals soliciting for a bona fide charitable or religious purpose when such individual or organization shall have been approved and granted either a charitable solicitations permit or a religious registration by the metropolitan charitable solicitations board, or when such individual or organization shall have been exempted from any such requirements. Nor shall the provisions of this section apply to any individuals while in the process of exercising any lawful right of speech or assembly protected by the Constitution of the United States and the State of Tennessee.

B.

The provisions of this section shall not be construed to limit, abridge or otherwise abrogate any other requirement established by any other ordinance concerning licenses or permits which may be required to be obtained before any such sale or offering for sale of any goods referenced in subsection A of this section which may take place. Should the requirements of this section be more stringent than the requirements of any other ordinance which may relate to the sale or offering for sale of any goods referenced in subsection A of this section and within the area in which such sale or offering for sale is proscribed, then the provisions of this section shall prevail.

C.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. Each sale or offering for sale which occurs in violation of this section shall be deemed a separate offense.

(Ord. 96-569 § 1, 1996)