15.08.040 Application for permit – Contents – Filing.
Application for an outdoor festival permit shall be in writing and filed with the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners. Said application shall be filed not less than ninety (90) days prior to the first scheduled day of the festival and shall be accompanied with a permit fee in the amount of $2,500. Said application shall include:
(1) The name of the person or other legal entity on behalf of whom said application is made; provided, that a natural person applying for such permit shall be eighteen (18) years of age or older;
(2) A financial statement of the applicant;
(3) The nature of the business organization of the applicant;
(4) Names and addresses of all individuals or other entities having a ten (10) percent or more proprietary interest in the festival;
(5) The principal place of business of applicant;
(6) A legal description of the land to be occupied, the name and address of the owner thereof, together with a document showing the consent of said owner to the issuance of a permit, if the land be owned by a person other than the applicant;
(7) The scheduled performances and program;
(8) Written confirmation from the health officer that he or she has reviewed and approved plans for site and development in accordance with rules, regulations and standards adopted by the County. Such rules and regulations shall include criteria as to the following and such other matters as the County deems necessary to protect the public’s health:
(a) Submission of plans;
(b) Site;
(c) Water supply;
(d) Sewage disposal;
(e) Food preparation facilities;
(f) Toilet facilities;
(g) Solid waste;
(h) Insect and rodent control;
(i) Shelter;
(j) Dust control;
(k) Lighting;
(l) Emergency medical facilities;
(m) Emergency air evacuation;
(n) Attendant physicians;
(o) Communication systems;
(p) Bathing areas required by WAC;
(q) Noise;
(r) Access;
(s) Fire protection.
(9) A written confirmation from the Sheriff where the outdoor festival is to take place, showing that traffic control and crowd protection policing have been contracted for or otherwise provided by the applicant meeting the following conditions:
(a) One person for each 150 persons reasonably expected to be in attendance at any time during the event for purposes of traffic and crowd control (not including parking) or as otherwise specified at the discretion of the Sheriff.
(b) The names and addresses of all traffic and crowd control personnel shall be provided to the Sheriff; provided, that not less than thirty (30) percent of the traffic and crowd control personnel shall be commissioned deputy sheriffs.
(c) During the hours that the festival site shall be open to the public there shall be at least one regularly commissioned deputy sheriff employed by the County for every 1,000 persons in attendance and said officer shall be on duty within the confines of the actual outdoor festival site.
(d) All law enforcement personnel shall be charged with enforcing the provisions of this chapter and all existing statutes, ordinances and regulations.
(e) That arrangement for payment of or reimbursement for all traffic and crowd control personnel, parking control personnel and law enforcement officers deemed necessary by the Sheriff have been made.
(10) A written confirmation from the Sheriff and County Roads Director that sufficient access roads are available for ingress and egress to the parking areas of the outdoor festival site and that parking areas are available on the actual site of the festival or immediately adjacent thereto which are capable of accommodating one auto for every four (4) persons in estimated attendance at the outdoor festival site and that issues of traffic patterns, signage and detours have been sufficiently addressed.
(11) A written confirmation from the fire chief in the district where the festival will be held that all fire prevention requirements have been complied with.
(12) A written statement of the applicant that all state and local law enforcement officers, fire control officers and other necessary governmental personnel shall have free access to the site of the outdoor festival.
(13) The names and mailing addresses of all real property owners within 1,000 yards of the festival site.
(14) A statement that the applicant is familiar with and will abide by the provisions of this chapter.
(15) The verification of the applicant warranting the truth of the matters set forth in the application to the best of the applicant’s knowledge, under the penalty of perjury.