A. Any local charitable, religious or patriotic organization meeting the definitions thereof in Section 5.59.020(5), or any bona fide informal neighborhood or community group which wishes to sponsor a carnival as herein defined, in connection with which no admission or use charges are to be made or in which all net charges and receipts are to go to such local organization for its charitable, religious or patriotic purposes, may apply to the city clerk for a community carnival license. Such application must be filed or have been filed at least ninety days before the proposed date for the community carnival and meet all requirements of this chapter except that it may provide for the carnival to be held in or within two hundred feet of a residential zone, despite the provisions of Section 5.18.080; provided, in such a case the application must be accompanied by a notice prepared by the sponsors of the community carnival, approved as to form and content by the city manager, advising all residents on property which directly abuts the carnival, as defined in Section 5.18.010, or which is separated from such carnival only by a public street of the activities planned for the community carnival, and advising that they may advise the city manager in writing as to whether or not they object to issuance of the license. Such notice shall be mailed to such residents by the city according to a list thereof to be supplied by the sponsors. Thereafter any such resident may notify the city manager of any objections he or she has to the carnival. Such objection must be sent to the manager within ten days of mailing of the notice to such neighbor. If forty percent or more of such residents so object the application shall be referred to city council by the city manager. The council thereafter shall review the application and at a public meeting may approve or reject the same, and its decision shall be final. Beer and/or wine may be furnished or sold at such carnival despite the provisions of Section 5.18.130 so long as a permit to do so is secured by the applicant from the Washington State Liquor Control Board. All community carnival activities shall begin no earlier than ten a.m. and end no later than twelve midnight. Such license shall be issued without payment of any fee upon the finding by the clerk or council that the applicant is qualified for such permit under this chapter.

B. Any permit issued under this section shall be conditioned upon strict compliance with the representations or grounds upon which waiver of the fee was predicated, and waiver of the fee shall not affect the licensee’s responsibility to conform to all other provisions of this chapter. (Ord. M-2389 §1, 1983: Ord. M-1959 §1, 1979: Ord. M-1890 §1, 1978: Ord. M-1521 §1, 1974: Ord. M-1422 §5, 1973)