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The chief of police may condition the issuance of a special events permit by imposing reasonable requirements concerning the time, place and manner of the event, and such requirements as are necessary to protect the safety of persons and property, and the control of traffic; provided, that such conditions shall not unreasonably restrict the right of free speech. Such conditions include:

A. Alteration of the mute, time or location of the event proposed on the event application;

B. Conditions concerning the area of assembly and disbanding of parades or other events occurring along a route;

C. Conditions concerning accommodation of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, including restricting the event to only a portion of a street transversed;

D. Requirements for the use of traffic cones or barricades;

E. Requirements for provision of first aid or sanitary facilities;

F. Requirements for the use of event monitors, and providing notice of permit conditions to event participants;

G. Restrictions on the number and type of vehicles, animals or structures at the event, and inspection and approval of floats and other decorated vehicles for fire safety by the Petaluma fire department;

H. Compliance with animal protection ordinances and laws;

I. Requirements for use of garbage containers, cleanup and restoration of city property;

J. Restrictions on use of amplified sound;

K. An application for a special event permit to conduct a block party may be conditioned on notice and approval by fifty percent of the residents of dwellings along the affected street(s). Block parties must be located in a cul-de-sac to be approved;

L. Compliance with any relevant ordinance or law and obtaining any legally required permit or license;

M. Requiring proof of permission to use private property for a portion of the event.

(Ord. 1585 NCS §3 (part), 1984.)