Sec. 19a-436. (Formerly Sec. 19-550). License requirements. Waiver of requirements.
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(a)Except as provided in subsection
(c)of this section, no person shall permit, maintain, promote, conduct, advertise, act as entrepreneur, undertake, organize, manage or sell or give tickets to an assembly
(1)that continues or can reasonably be expected to continue for twelve or more consecutive hours, and
(2)for which the average number of persons assembled during all hours of the assembly can reasonably be expected to equal or exceed two thousand persons, whether on public or private property, unless a license to hold the assembly has first been issued by the chief elected official of the municipality in which the assembly is to gather or a designee of the chief elected official.
(b)A separate license shall be required for each day and each location in which two thousand or more people assemble or can reasonably be anticipated to assemble. The fee for each license shall be one hundred dollars.
(c)A municipality may waive the licensure process prescribed in this chapter, provided no assembly, as described in subsection
(a)of this section, may gather without a license unless the person undertaking the assembly has provided:
(1)Prior notification to the chief elected official of the municipality where the assembly is to gather, or a designee of the chief elected official, and
(2)a letter to the chief elected official of the municipality, or a designee of the chief elected official, documenting that the requirements of section 19a-437 have been met. The person undertaking the gathering shall provide such notice and letter to the chief elected official of the municipality, or a designee of the chief elected official, not less than twenty days prior to the date when the assembly is to gather.