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Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
3
230861
Name:
Police Code - Fees, Applications, and Conditions for
Certain Entertainment Permits
Status:
Type:
Ordinance
Passed
File created:
In control:
10/17/2023
Clerk of the Board
On agenda:
Final action:
12/14/2023
Enactment date:
12/14/2023
250-23
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) 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 8) clarify that a single
One Time Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit may extend across multiple consecutive or non-
consecutive 24-hour periods.
Sponsors:
Mayor, Ahsha Safai
Attachments:
1. Leg Ver1, 2. Leg Dig Ver1, 3. Referral SBC 080223, 4. SBC Response 091323, 5. Leg Ver2, 6. Leg
Dig Ver2, 7. Referral SBC 102323, 8. OEWD Presentation 112923, 9. Cmte Pkt 112923, 10. Board Pkt
120523, 11. Leg Ver3, 12. Leg Dig Ver3, 13. Board Pkt 121223, 14. Leg Final
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE
President
7/25/2023
1
REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
Clerk of the Board
8/2/2023
1
RESPONSE RECEIVED
Small Business Commission
9/13/2023
1
SUBSTITUTED AND ASSIGNED
President
10/17/2023
2
REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
Clerk of the Board
10/23/2023
2
RECOMMENDED
Budget and Finance Committee
11/29/2023
2
Pass
DUPLICATED ON FIRST READING
Board of Supervisors
12/5/2023
2
AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE
WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE
Board of Supervisors
12/5/2023
2
Pass
PASSED ON FIRST READING AS
AMENDED
Board of Supervisors
12/5/2023
3
Pass
FINALLY PASSED
Board of Supervisors
12/12/2023
3
Pass
APPROVED
Mayor
12/14/2023
3