Glasgow License Tax for Dances, Etc ordinance (§ 605.270)

Every person managing or giving any public masquerade, ball or dance, for gain or profit, within the City, except in a duly licensed dance hall, shall pay the license tax of ten dollars ($10.00) for each such entertainment; and every person owning, managing, giving, or controlling any theatrical, operatic, or other similar exhibition, or any show or amusement or entertainment not already hereinbefore designated or hereafter designated, or concert, or public lecture, or public exhibition or ventriloquism, or of spirit rapping, or of other spiritualistic demonstration, or of mind reading, or of legerdemain, or of slight-of-hand tricks, at any place within the City other than at a regularly licensed moving picture house, or regularly licensed public hall, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars ($10.00) for each and every such entertainment; provided that nothing in this Section contained shall be construed as applying to any amateur or purely charitable performance.