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A. The chief of police shall approve an application for a special event permit unless he determines from consideration of the application, or other pertinent information, that any of the following conditions exist:

1. Information contained in the application, or supplemental information requested from the applicant, is found to be false in any material detail;

2. The applicant fails to complete the application form after having been requested to do so;

3. The sole purpose of the event is advertising of any product, goods, wares, merchandise or event, and is designed to be held for private profit and not for First Amendment expression;

4. Another special event permit application has been received prior in time, or has already been approved, to hold another event at the same time and place requested by the applicant, or so close in time and place as to cause undue traffic congestion, or the police department is unable to meet the needs for police services for both events;

5. The time, route or size of the event will substantially interrupt the safe and orderly movement of traffic contiguous to the event site or route, or disrupt the use of a street at a time when it is usually subject to great traffic congestion;

6. The concentration of persons, animals and vehicles at the site of the event, or the assembly and disbanding areas around an event, will prevent proper police, fire or ambulance services to areas contiguous to the event;

7. The size or nature of the event will require the assignment of so great a number of city police officers to properly police the line of movement of an event, or the boundaries or areas contiguous to an event, as to prevent normal police protection to the rest of the city. Nothing in this section authorizes denial of a permit because of the need to protect participants from the conduct of others, if reasonable permit conditions can be imposed to allow for adequate protection of event participants with the number of police officers available to police the event;

8. The location of the event will substantially interfere with any construction or maintenance work scheduled to take place upon or along the city streets, or a previously granted encroachment permit;

9. The event shall occur at a time when a school is in session at a route or location adjacent to the school or class thereof, and the noise created by the activities of the event would substantially disrupt the educational activities of the school or class thereof.

B. When the grounds for denial of an application for permit specified in subsections (A)(4) through (A)(9) of this section, can be corrected by altering the date, time, duration, route or location of the event, the chief of police shall instead of denying the application conditionally approve the application upon the applicant’s acceptance of conditions for permit issuance.

(Ord. 1585 NCS §3 (part), 1984.)