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Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
1
231259
Name:
Police Code - Fees, Applications, and Conditions for
Certain Entertainment Permits
Status:
Type:
Ordinance
Pending Committee Action
File created:
In control:
12/5/2023
Budget and Finance Committee
On agenda:
Final action:
Enactment date:
Enactment #:
Title:
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.
Sponsors:
Mayor
Attachments:
1. Referral SBC 080223, 2. SBC Response 091323, 3. Referral SBC 102323, 4. OEWD Presentation
112923, 5. Cmte Pkt 112923, 6. Board Pkt 120523, 7. Leg Ver1, 8. Leg Dig Ver1
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED
Board of Supervisors
12/5/2023
1
REFERRED
Board of Supervisors
12/5/2023
1
Pass