28 Del. C. § 901
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§ Â 901. License for shows and other exhibitions.
Official statutory text
(a) Whoever for money or other reward in any city or town in this State exhibits any images or pageantry, sleight of hand, tricks, puppet shows, circus, any feats of balancing, personal agility, strength or dexterity, or any theatrical exhibition, without a license first obtained as provided in this section shall forfeit and pay to the city or town a fine as set by the city or town.
(b) The mayor of any city, the commissioners of any town, or if there are no commissioners, any justice of the peace residing in or nearest to such town, may grant a license for such exhibitions on receiving for the use of the city or town such sum as they deem proper, not less than $5.00, for every such exhibition.
(c) Whoever wilfully suffers any unlicensed exhibition to be had or made in any house or upon any premises in the person’s possession shall pay to the city or town a fine as set by the city or town.
(d) This section does not extend to any permanently established museum, nor to any merely literary, scientific or musical exhibition.
(b) The mayor of any city, the commissioners of any town, or if there are no commissioners, any justice of the peace residing in or nearest to such town, may grant a license for such exhibitions on receiving for the use of the city or town such sum as they deem proper, not less than $5.00, for every such exhibition.
(c) Whoever wilfully suffers any unlicensed exhibition to be had or made in any house or upon any premises in the person’s possession shall pay to the city or town a fine as set by the city or town.
(d) This section does not extend to any permanently established museum, nor to any merely literary, scientific or musical exhibition.
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