A. “Applicant” means any person or organization who seeks a special event permit from the city to conduct or sponsor an event governed by this section. An applicant must be eighteen years of age or older.

B. “Athletic event” means an occasion in which a group of persons collectively engage in a sport or form of physical exercise on a public street, sidewalk, alley or other public right-of-way, which obstructs, delays, or interferes with the normal flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, or does not comply with traffic laws and controls. Athletic events include bicycle and foot races, bike-a-thons, and walk-a-thons.

C. “Motorcade” means any organized procession containing ten or more vehicles, except funeral processions, upon a public street, sidewalk, alley or other public right-of-way.

D. “Parade” means any march or procession consisting of people, animals, bicycles, vehicles or combination thereof, except funeral processions, on any public street, sidewalk, alley or other public right-of-way, which obstructs, delays or interferes with the normal flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, or does not comply with traffic laws or controls.

E. “Special event” means any parade, fair, show, festival, carnival, rally, party, filming of movie, video or television show, motorcade, run, street dance, bike-a-thon, race, walks, athletic event or other attended entertainment or celebration that is to be held in whole or in part upon publicly owned property and/or public right-of-way, or, if held wholly upon private property, will nevertheless affect or impact the ordinary and normal use by the general public of public property or public rights-of-way within the vicinity of the event. “Special event” shall also mean any activity to be held in whole or in part upon publicly owned or controlled property and/or public rights-of-way where merchandise or services are offered for sale, whether by for-profit or nonprofit organizations, except where such activity is expressly authorized by a sidewalk use permit issued pursuant to Chapter 12.30 MMC.

F. “Special expressive event” means a special event organized primarily to convey ideas, opinions, or thoughts through words or conduct. Examples of special expressive events include political demonstrations and/or rallies, picketing, and similar types of free speech or conduct typically given a higher level of constitutional protection than commercial speech.

G. “Street dance” means any dance of three or more couples on or within any publicly owned parking lot or other publicly owned property, or any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public right-of-way. (Ord. 007/2023 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 008/2015 § 2; Ord. 923, 1989)