Street Entertainment Guidelines & Application Form
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2Street Entertainment Guidelines & Application
January 2016
Guidelines
A street performer or busker is defined as someone who engages in street performances for entertainment. Street
performance/entertainment includes: acting, singing, playing one or more musical instruments, dancing, miming, juggling,
unicycling, stilt walking, magic performances, reciting, storytelling and engaging in similar acts of entertainment on a city owned
or controlled sidewalk, plaza, park or public space – NOT on vehicular streets, nor in motor vehicular parking lots.
Downtown Anderson Street Performers/ Buskers must obtain a permit. Interested individuals should present to the Business
Development Office of the City of Anderson: (1) completed application, (2) $50 application fee/$15 student application fee, and (3)
current South Carolina 10 year criminal records check.
Permits expire on January 31st.
A criminal records check may be acquired through
records check is approximately $25. The criminal records check should include a sex‐offender report.
REMINDERS:
Street performances are not permitted within 50 feet of the structure which is a school, hospital, funeral home, courthouse
or cemetery.
No performance shall occur within an encroachment area for dining on a public sidewalk.
Performances hours are between 10 am until 10 pm, and allowable within the Central Business District only. The CBD
district is a rectangle bordered on the north by Greenville Street, on the east by McDuffie Street, on the south by Reed
Street and on the west by Murray Avenue.
With current and approved permit, performer may accept gratuities. No performer may solicit payments before, during, or
after a performance. However, performer may place a money receptacle of reasonable size at the performance site. It may
remain open before, after, and during the performance. A sign no larger than 12 x18 inches may be used to invite gratuities.
The receptacle for gratuities may not block pedestrian traffic.
Permit holder may not set up signs, tents, tables, chairs, etc. that block pedestrian traffic.
The sale of goods is prohibited. A city business license is required to sell, or offer for sale, merchandise. The City business
license is in addition to the street entertainment permit, and acquired from the City Business License Department.
Permits must be prominently displayed on their persons during the time of performance. Permits are not transferrable, and
issued to individuals only. No group performances.
Must comply with Street Performance Ordinance (section 70:171‐174), Noise Ordinance (section 42:86) and Solicitation
Ordinance (section 61:168).
May not consume or be under the influence of alcohol or other controlled substances while performing.
The City of Anderson Sidewalk Entertainment Permit does not include the Anderson County Courthouse Plaza or stage.
A student permit is available for a $15 annual fee with valid student ID. Permits for individuals under the age of 18 require
parent or guardian permission. A student ID copy must accompany application, along with $15 fee.
EXCEPTIONS:
Performers using knives or flames must obtain written authorization from the fire marshal and/or police department
setting forth conditions of authorization.
Performers with chalk drawings on sidewalk must obtain written authorization.
No sound amplification without written authorization. No megaphones.
Specifically excluded are speeches, lectures, picketing, and sermons.
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