§ 6.32.070. War Memorial Auditorium—Area regulations.

A.

1. The sale or offering for sale of any goods or personal property, including but not limited to food, candy, confections, programs, books, pictures, tickets, records, tee shirts, lights and other novelties, or any and all other articles of personal property whatsoever by any person, is prohibited, within the area specified by this subsection on any date whereon an event has been duly scheduled in the War Memorial Auditorium. 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 goods or personal property is prohibited upon the streets and sidewalks in the area of the metropolitan government surrounding the War Memorial Auditorium, and more particularly described as follows:

 Beginning at the northeast corner of Union Street and Seventh Avenue North and proceeding in a north-northwesterly direction along the easterly margin and sidewalk of Seventh Avenue North adjacent to the War Memorial Auditorium to the southeast corner of Charlotte Avenue and Seventh Avenue North, thence proceeding in a easterly direction along the southerly margin and sidewalk of Charlotte Avenue adjacent to the War Memorial Auditorium to the western side of the intersection of Sixth Avenue North and Charlotte Avenue, thence proceeding in a south-southeasterly direction along the western margins and sidewalks of Sixth Avenue North to the northwest corner of the intersection of Sixth Avenue North and Union Street, thence proceeding in a westerly direction along the northerly margin and sidewalk of Union Street to the northeast corner of Union Street and Seventh Avenue North.

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. BL2017-658 § 1, 2017)