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Ordinance#231259Filed
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The ordinance amends the Police Code to waive certain fees for Entertainment Permits, eliminate specific permit types, and streamline application processes for various entertainment-related permits. It also modifies reporting requirements for criminal history and allows for the creation of security plans for certain permits while clarifying permit duration rules.

Ordinance amending the Police Code to 1) waive initial license and filing fees through June 30, 2025, for certain Entertainment Permits for former holders of Just Add Music Permits; 2) waive initial license and filing fees for Entertainment Permits for applicants who are newly eligible to apply for those permits due to recent Planning Code amendments; 3) eliminate masked ball permits; 4) require applicants for Arcade, Ancillary Use, Billiard and Pool Table, Place of Entertainment, Limited Live Performance, Fixed Place Outdoor Amplified Sound, and Extended-Hours Premises Permits to submit a new Permit application and filing fee if their existing application has not been granted, conditionally granted, or denied within 12 months of its submission; 5) authorize the Entertainment Commission Director (“Director”) to issue Billiard and Pool Table Permits without a hearing, and provide that such permits may be suspended or revoked under the standards and procedures that apply to other Entertainment Permits; 6) exempt schools from the requirement to obtain a Place of Entertainment Permit, Limited Live Performance Permit, or Fixed Place Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit for any activities that occur on school premises in the regular course of school operations; 7) eliminate the requirement that applicants for Place of Entertainment Permits disclose with their permit application criminal history information regarding certain individuals connected with the applicant business; 8) narrow the categories of new criminal charges, complaints, or indictments brought against a Place of Entertainment Permittee or its employees or agents that the Permittee must report, to only those charges, complaints or indictments that could be grounds for suspension of the Permit; 9) allow the Director or the Entertainment Commission to require an applicant for a Limited Live Performance Permit to propose a Security Plan if necessary to protect the safety of persons and property or provide for the orderly dispersal of persons and traffic, to make compliance with the Security Plan a condition of the Permit, and to require revisions to the Security Plan as necessary; and 10) clarify that a single One Time Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit may extend across multiple consecutive or non-consecutive 24-hour periods.

Introduced: Dec 5, 2023
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Board of SupervisorsDec 5, 2023
RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED
REFERREDPass
Clerk of the BoardJun 6, 2024
·FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 3.41