Exceptions to security and emergency services requirements, notwithstanding the requirements of this chapter

(a)

A special event may be required to have more security and emergency services personnel for administration of maintenance of traffic plans and wet zoned events, if applicable. A special event may be required to have more security and emergency services personnel in attendance for events with extraordinary risk factors, including, but not limited to, pyrotechnics, automobile races, air shows, boating (including water activities such as skiing, wakeboarding, etc.), mosh pits or other activities perilous to public health and safety are present at special events according to recognized public safety standards of the City of Tampa Police Department and Tampa Fire and Rescue. Either the police chief and fire chief or their designees shall be required to declare an event to consist of "extraordinary risk", and provide reasons therefore in writing, prior to requiring emergency services personnel beyond those set forth in Exhibit I hereto and may increase personnel by up to fifty (50) percent of the required personnel for each attendance category.

(b)

A special event may be allowed to have less security and emergency services personnel in attendance if the special event is of a demonstrated low risk category based upon recognized public safety standards of the Tampa Police Department and Tampa Fire Rescue. In such a situation, the police chief and fire chief or their designees, based upon such standards and other knowledge of similar special events, may decrease personnel by up to fifty (50) percent of the required personnel for each attendance category.

(Ord. No. 2009-126, § 1, 8-20-09)