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ORDINANCE NO. 101. AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING SHOWS, EXHIBITIONS, MERRY-GO-ROUNDS AND OTHER AIVfl SEMENTS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF LOUIS- VILLE, BOULDER COUNTY, COLO,RADO Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to have , exhibit, operate or maintain, within this town for gain or profit , whether by charging an entrance fee or otherwise , any circus, menagerie , side-show, street show, street carnival, or any other traveling exhibition, or merry-go-round without a license' there for first had and obtained according to the provision of this ordin- ance. Section 2. For a license for a circus, or for circus and menagerie or other similar exhibition or show combined for which one admis- sion is charged, for one exhibition the sum of Fifteen Dollars; for each additional exhibition the sum of Ten Dollars; for menag- erie alone, for one exhibition, the sum of fifteen dollars; for each additional exhibition, sum of Ten Dollars;. for each side-show, traveling exhibition or show of like nature accompanying a c'iraus or menagerie for which an additional admittance fee is charged, the sum of Ten Dollars; for each additional exhibition, the sum Five Dollars; for each street show Or for each carnival company operating one or more independent exhibitions for separate admis- sions , the sum of Five Dollars per day for each of such exhibitions, ,, or the sum of twenty-five dollars per week for each such exhibition of any other kind than as covered by the foregoing, which has or uses its own tent or structure for its exhibitions , the sum of Five Dollars per day, or the sum of Twenty-five Dollars per week. For each Merry-go-round the sum of Twenty-five Dollars per week or the sum of Five Dollars per day for each day less than one full week. All ,such license fees shall be paid in advance or at the time the license is issued. Section 3. in all cases under the provision of this ordinance where the time for which the license shall be given shall be specified in days , the hour of the isue and termination of such license shall be stated therein. Such license shall be prepared by the town clerk, signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk. Section 4. Any license granted pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance may be revoked ,without refund or rebate of any part of the license fee if the exhibition of such licensee shall be immoral, vicious, indecent , or having a tendency by suggestion, to lower the morals of the spectators. Section 5. Whoever+ violates the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not more than Three Hundred Dollars. INTRODUCED, READ, ADOPTED and ordered published by publication in the Louisvi..le Times, this 5th day of October, A. D. 1915,