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nearly as practicable to the right side of the roadway, and as close as practicable to the vehicle ahead. Sec. 29-23. Driving between vehicles in a procession. It sha 11 be unlawful for a person to drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while the procession is in motion. This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or police officers. Sec. 29-24. Parades. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct or participate in any parade, other than a funeral procession, upon any street without a permit issued by the chief of police. Application for the permit shall be on a form provided by the Police Department and shall be made not less than ten (lØ) days before the time for such parade, and shall be accompanied by a fee prescribed by separate ordinance. The chief of police may waive the lØ day requirement for good cause. (b) No permit shall be issued authorizing a parade which is to be held for the sole purpose of advertising any product, goods, wares, merchandise, or is designed to be held solely for private profit. (c) Permit application. The application for the permit shall be made in writing and on a form provided by the chief of police containing the following information: (1) The name of the applicant, the sponsoring organization, the parade chairman, and the addresses and telephone numbers of each: (2) The date to conduct the parade, the location of the assembly area, the location of the disbanding area, the route to be traveled and the approximate times when the parade will assemble, start and terminate: (3) The number and type of vehicles and an imal s, the number of persons expected to participate, and a general description of the organization of the parade: and (4) Such other information as the chief of police may deem reasonably necessary for the safety of the parade participants and general public. (d) The chief of police shall issue a parade permit to the parade chairman unless the chief of police finds that: (l) The date, times when the parade will assemble, start or terminate, route, location of the assembly area, the location of the disbanding area, or size of the parade will disrupt to an unreasonable extent the movement of other traffic: (2) The parade is of a size or nature that it requires the diversion of so great a number of police officers of the city to properly police the line of movement and the areas contiguous thereto, that allowing the parade would deny reasonable police protection to the rest of the city: (3) The parade will interfere, with regard to proposed route, police supervision, or other material factors, with another parade for which a permit has been issued: or -5-