1300.1 A circus, rodeo, carnival, fair, performance, singing, playing of musical or other instruments, dancing or amusement of any kind, or preaching, exhorting, or lecturing may be conducted or operated in a tent or temporary structure of any kind, on vacant land, or in a yard or area appurtenant to any building, subject to the conditions set forth in this section and § 1301.1300.2 No amusement, carnival, fair, performance, singing, playing of musical or other instruments, or dancing, shall be conducted for a total of more than ten (10) days at any single location.1300.3 No circus or rodeo shall operate for more than a total of ten (10) days in any calendar year.1300.4 No preaching, exhorting, or lecturing shall be conducted for a total of more than thirty (30) days at any single location.1300.5 The permissible total days any of the activities listed in §§ 1300.2 through 1300.4 may be conducted or operated need not necessarily be consecutive days.1300.6 None of the activities listed in § 1300.1 shall be conducted in a location that is within five hundred feet (500') of a college, university, or public, private or parochial school during the hours that any class is in session.1300.7 None of the activities listed in § 1300.1 shall be conducted on the secular days of the week after 11:30 p.m., nor on Sundays, except between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.; provided, that preaching, lecturing, or exhorting may be conducted between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on Sundays.1300.8 Merry-go-rounds, flying horses, ferris wheels, or similar devices shall be permitted only in conjunction with a circus, rodeo, carnival or fair, except as provided in § 1310.1300.9 The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to persons holding lawn parties on private premises for which no admission fee is charged, and where the music is produced only by stringed instruments.1300.10 Any person violating any of the provisions of this section or § 1301, whether owner, operator, manager, or other person in control of the premises, or managers or persons participating in any of those activities, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars (\$ 300).

AUTHORITY: Unless otherwise noted, the authority for this chapter is paragraphs 2, 20, 23, 28 and 45 of section 7 of An Act Making Appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes, approved July 1, 1902, Public 218, 32 Stat 622, as amended by An Act approved July 1, 1932, to amend section 7 [thereof] Public, No. 237, 47 Stat. 550, and as further amended by An Act approved July 22, 1947, Public Law 215, 61 Stat. 402.

SOURCE: Article 6 § 1(c)-(g) and Article 30 § 4 of the Police Regulations of the District of Columbia (January 1983); as amended by Regulation No. 74-39 effective December 3, 1974.