§ 27-5. Special entertainment permit required; prerequisites to issuance.

Any person desiring to stage, promote, or conduct any musical or entertainment festival in the county shall first secure a special entertainment permit from the board of county commissioners. Such permit shall not be issued unless and until the following plans, documents and information are submitted to the board of county commissioners and the following minimum conditions are met:

(1)

Available facilities; applicability of sanitary code. Adequate plans for camp construction, sanitation facilities, sewage disposal, garbage and refuse disposal, drainage, floodlighting during darkness, insect and rodent control, water supply and food service. For the purposes of evaluating such plans, the standards established by the rules of the division of health in the state sanitary code shall be considered as minimum requirements. For the purposes of this chapter, the following provisions or the successor provisions thereto of the Sanitary Code in the Florida Administrative Code shall be considered specifically applicable to the operation of a musical or entertainment festival: F.A.C. ch. 170C-32.03; 32.04; 32.07; 32.09; 32.10; 32.11; 32.13; 32.14; 32.15; 32.16; 32.17; 32.18; 32.21; 32.22; ch. 170C-6; and ch. 170C-16. In evaluating the plans, the board of county commissioners shall also consider the applicability of provisions of F.S. ch. 386, and such other provisions of law, of the sanitary code or of local ordinances, as it may deem necessary in the interests of the public health and welfare.

(2)

Location of facilities. An adequate geographic description and scale map or plan of the festival site, showing the location of all required facilities, including adequate traffic-control and parking facilities outside the performance area. Such plans shall provide for at least one (1) parking space for every five (5) patrons, and for safe transportation of the patrons from the parking area to the performance area. No motor vehicle with more than two (2) wheels shall be permitted in the performance area except when necessary to insure compliance with this section.

(3)

Medical facilities and services. An adequate plan for medical facilities. There shall be provided one (1) physician licensed in this state on duty at all times for every two thousand (2,000) patrons, one (1) nurse licensed in this state on duty at all times for every one thousand (1,000) patrons, one (1) bed or cot for every two hundred (200) patrons, complete and sterile supply of medicines, bandages, medical compounds, medical instruments, serums, tape and such other supplies as are necessary to treat adverse drug reactions, cuts, bruises, abrasions, bites, fractures, infections and other injuries commonly connected with such outdoor activities.

(4)

Internal security, traffic-control, communications, fire protection, emergency services. An adequate plan for internal security, traffic-control, communications, fire protection, and emergency services, including ambulance service, in and around the festival area. Such plan shall provide for at least one (1) person professionally trained in security and traffic-control on duty at all times for every five hundred (500) patrons, with no security personnel working more than one (1) eight-hour shift in any twenty-four-hour period. The plan shall include a detailed description of the plan of security, traffic-control, communications, fire protection and emergency services, including ambulance service, to be used and how it is to be implemented, and a detailed background on the training and ability of the personnel to be used in implementing such plan.

(5)

Financial disclosure. A full and complete disclosure in the financial backing of the festival, including the names of all persons with a direct or indirect financial interest in the staging, promoting or conducting of such festival, whether such interest be by virtue of ownership in any corporation staging, promoting or conducting such festival, status as an employee of any person, persons or entities staging, promoting or conducting such festival, or any involvement by which such person stands to gain or lose financially from such festival.

(6)

Names of performers, agreements. The names of all persons or groups who will perform at such festival, and executed copies of all contracts or agreements with such persons or groups.

(7)

Names of suppliers of products, materials, services; agreements. The names of all persons who will provide products, materials or services, other than entertainment, to or at such festival, and executed copies of all contracts or agreements with such persons.

(8)

Compliance with laws, ordinances, regulations. Full and complete compliance with all zoning and land use laws, beverage license laws and other laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the county.

(9)

Dates, times of commencement, conclusion. The exact date and time of commencement and the exact date and time of the conclusion of the festival.

(10)

Additional conditions, criteria, specifications. The board of county commissioners may establish by resolution such additional conditions, criteria or detailed specifications for the special entertainment permit as they may deem necessary to carry out the intent of this law, for the protection of the public health, morals, safety and general welfare.

(11)

Submission of application. The application for a special entertainment permit shall be submitted to the board of county commissioners at least twenty (20) days in advance of the commencement of the festival for which the permit application is filed, to permit the board of county commissioners to evaluate the application in an orderly and expeditious manner.

(12)

Public liability insurance required. A written public liability insurance policy insuring the person staging, promoting or conducting the musical or entertainment festival against any and all claims and demands made by any person for injuries received in connection with the staging, promoting, conducting or attendance of or at such musical or entertainment festival, written within limits of not less than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) damage or injury to any one (1) person for bodily injury or otherwise, plus twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) damages to property, and for not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) for damages incurred or claimed by more than one (1) person for bodily injury or otherwise, plus fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) damages to property. The original or duplicate of such policy shall be attached to the application for a special entertainment permit, together with adequate evidence that the premiums are paid.

(13)

Admission ticket to be used. The actual admission ticket to be used at such musical or entertainment festival. Such ticket shall contain thereon a provision that the holder will consent to the search of his vehicle or any package for drugs, and that if he fails to do so, he will be denied admission and his money will be refunded.

(Code 1965, § 21A-4; Ord. No. 70-9, § 4, 8-31-70)