See what the fuss is all about now?
ORDINANCE #870
ORDINANCE GOVERNING STREET THEATER, SKITS, DEMONSTRATIONS, PARADES, CONCERTS, FILMING, OR OTHER EVENTS OCCURRING ON STREETS OR PUBLIC PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF DEADWOOD
WHEREAS, many requests are received each year for various Persons and groups to perform or hold events on City streets, parks or pubic property within the City of Deadwood; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the pubic good and safety and in the best interest of the citizens of Deadwood that permits be obtained for such performances or events and that the same be regulated by the City; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that before any person group, entity or organization may have any performance, demonstration, street theater, skit, parade, concert, filming or any other event or production upon any public street, sidewalk, alley, park, parking lot or other pubic property within the city of Deadwood that it first obtain a permit from the Deadwood City Commission. The Deadwood City Commission may, in its discretion, require that a public hearing be held prior to the issuance of any permit under their Ordinance. Any proposals involving guns, firearms, pistols, or weapons of any kind, character. description or other equipment, or personal property causing loud noises or capable of creating a noise or other disturbance shall be required to furnish information concerning any such firearms, guns, or other weapons in connection with their request for a permit. Such permit shall be issued in writing and shall contain conditions governing the use of such guns, firearms, weapons, equipment and other personal property. Any performance, demonstration, street theater, skit, parade, concert, filming, or other event or production upon any public street, sidewalk, alley, park, parking lot or other public property within the City of Deadwood, shall be limited to ten (10) minutes and only one per day per permit.
Any person, group, or organization who uses City streets, alleys, parking lots, or public property in violation of this Ordinance or without a permit or violates any of the terms and conditions of a permit issued pursuant to this Ordinance shall be subject to a fine in the maximum amount of Two Hundred Dollars ($200).
The Deadwood City Commission will hold the authority to make any special conditions and/or exceptions to this ordinance to include liability insurance. Special consideration shall be given to historic events and activities.
Dated this 22nd day of March, 1994
Bruce Oberlander, Mayor
ATTEST:
Andrew A. Rickman, City Finance Officer
First Reading: 3/15/94
Second Reading: 3/22/94
Publication: 3/26/94
Oh, my! You need to point out to the City of Deadhead - er, Deadwood - that playing for your own and/or your friends’ amusement does NOT constitute a “performance,” the purpose of which is to entertain others. The way the ordinance is written, it would seem that telling a joke to someone in a public place constitutes a violation. Good luck.
Anna,
Why don’t you move to LA? They use real guns and don’t get a permit.
Same thing in Chicago, and that’s what I ran away from! A murder a day got to me. Couldn’t read a newspaper or watch TV news for about 2 and a half years when I got here!
Why would a criminal get a permit?
On 2002-03-27 17:37, Glengary wrote:
Why would a criminal get a permit?
Why not? They don’t think like the rest of us anyhow! 
Let it shine! Anna “Dances with Weasels” Martinez
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-03-27 19:39 ]
well I for ONE understand the citys postition. I would advise my town of Moro to inact the same regulations, for I am sure that MY playing is a possible danger. but…with practice. (they havent told me I need liablity insurance so guess i am not as bad as I think)
On 2002-03-27 19:21, dd wrote:
well I for ONE understand the citys postition. I would advise my town of Moro to inact the same regulations, for I am sure that MY playing is a possible danger. but…with practice. (they havent told me I need liablity insurance so guess i am not as bad as I think)
Well, it works real good to keep the “undesireables” out.
Good God! The legalese in that ordinance is so deep you should be issued hip waders before being allowed to read it!
They got us scumball whistlers by the short hairs, right where they want us. Heh! I think the non-firing weapon defense will work, after all they decided that re-enactors could be out in costume without a permit, as long as their weapons were non-firing! I don’t think fillig the whistle with BB shot counts, ya think?
Let it shine! Anna “Dances with Weasels” Martinez
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-03-28 08:37 ]
Anna ! I told you not to shoot that gun off within the city limits!!! Gm
Whine Pout Sulk But why?
Let it shine! Anna “Dances with Weasels” Martinez
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-03-28 04:02 ]
Hi Anna
What I think I will do is copy the Ordance to a letter, address it to the city council and tell them, that given this ordance there is no reason what so ever to vist Deadwood because it appears to a cultural waste land, were the First Amendment is suppress in favour of the corporate interests.
Yep, I will do that for you.
Mark
(edit) PS. Can you post the name of the Mayor and his address at council.
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.” Heraclitus.
[ This Message was edited by: MarkB on 2002-03-28 07:39 ]
YAY! MARK! YAY! YAY! (Jumping up and down and clapping!)
Cultural wasteland? Hey, the crowd went nuts
when the Platters appeared at the Deadwood Pavilion last week. They said it was SRO!
Mayor Francis Toscana
City Hall
104 Sherman Street
Deadwood, SD 57732
What’s funny is I used to beat the crap out of that Oberlander guy as a kid. Wonder if I can still do it?
Uh, any volunteers from the UK or Ireland want to write an educational letter?
Guess the whistle falls into the “other personal property capable of causing a noise” phrase. Ya’ll know about my neurotic stage fright, so how can I be a performer, when I’m just a normal whistler playing at every opportunity!
God save this humble whistler! I think She is the only one who can do it!
Is this what you call an international incident?
Let it shine! Anna “Dances with Weasels” Martinez
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-03-28 09:10 ]
You might also want to point out to them that the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are emptying out fast. Whole countries etc are almost depopulated to the point that the people living there can no longer pay enough in taxes etc to keep anything there.
If you search Google under depopulation Great Plains you will see what I mean. Deadwood can’t afford to turn away any aspect that would want to make people to live there. I live three blocks from a casino here in Windsor and three ten minutes away in Detroit, why would I go to Deadwood to gamble. Especially one owned by Tom Cruise.
Mark
I started this idiotic mess, and think I should keep a low profile for a while, and let you guys take over…send letters, etc. If I’m dead within a year, you’ll know it’s murder!
Anna,I honestly don’t know if this is some kind of joke. Whatever happened to freedom? Here in the mother country we can only shake our heads in disbelief and wonder if this kind of sentiment will creep our way like so many other Americanisms have done. I thought that our place was quite repressive but, to coin a phrase, your lot just take the biscuit
Did you copy and paste that in, or type it? There’s a rather embarrasing typo in the first WHEREAS statement. 
Is that in the original document?
Totally gobsmacked that it mentions the wearing of firearms - here in the UK firearms are illegal, and wearing one in pubic (hahaha!) would have you thrown in the slammer in no time.
No wonder the place is called “Deadwood”.
jinje, there are elements of humor in it, irony, absurdity, but this is deadly serious.
You folks in the UK, have a proud tradition of making music. We, here in Deadwood, are only proud of our heritage when it makes money. I am thinking of this as a clash of two incompatible economic systems, the Native American way of recipricosity, and never taking more than you need, and the accumulate more wealth than you’ll ever need in two life times school of economics! I promise I will never try to sing like Andy Stewart or sound like Gounds Keeper Willie! I promise. Yep, we take the cake here. Funnny thing, there’s may Scots Catholics buried in St. Ambrose’s Cemetary here, and NOBODY know how we got them here at the turn of the century and nobody cares, guess it just deson’t generate eough revenue. Wild Bill Hickok was here for a few weeks, got himslef murdered, and it’s still generating revenue for the town! Go figure!
Ava, it was my typo, my scanner broke down, and I had to type it myself, and we all know Anna can’t type so well…I wish it had been theirs, more to poke fun at!