[R.O. 1992 §§ 210.180, 210.190, 210.200; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
Posting Generally.
1. 
No person shall post up handbills or advertisements on any building not his/her own without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof.
2. 
Posting of handbills without permission is an infraction.
B. 
Attachment To Utility Poles.
1. 
It shall be unlawful to place or attach bill posters or other advertising matter on any electric light pole or telephone pole within the City.
2. 
Attaching advertising matter to utility poles is an infraction.
C. 
Destroying, Removing, Etc.
1. 
No person shall remove, take down, deface, mark, injure or destroy any handbill or advertisement posted or lawfully put up by another before the same shall have expired.
2. 
Destroying or removing handbills is an infraction.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.210; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall bathe, wash or swim when nude in any watercourse, pond or pool of water within the City.
B. 
Bathing nude is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.230; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No undertaker or other person having charge or control of any burial shall permit any human body to be interred at a depth of less than six (6) feet below the surface of the ground.
B. 
Burial of a person at a depth of less than six (6) feet is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.240; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall keep open any cellar door or grading of a vault on any street, alley, avenue or upon any sidewalk thereof, except when necessarily opened to receive into or discharge articles therefrom, or shall leave the same open after sunset.
B. 
Leaving open cellar doors is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.250; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall willfully destroy, disfigure or injure any wall, fence, hedge, monument, tombstone, tree or shrubbery around or within any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground or shall use such cemetery, graveyard or burial ground for any other purposes than a burial ground.
B. 
Damaging cemetery property is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.270; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
Dance halls within the City at which an admission charge or donation is received directly or indirectly shall be illuminated with an intensity of not less than three (3) footcandles during the hours of dancing in such hall.
B. 
The person in charge of the premises shall be responsible for the maintenance of the lighting requirements set out in Subsection (A) of this Section.
C. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.280; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall put or cause to be put any dead animal, carcass or any part thereof or any offal or other filth into a well, cistern, spring, drinking fountain, trough or basin used for drinking purposes or into any brook or branch within this City which is or may be used by the public for drinking purposes.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
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Editor's Note: See also § 210.2480, Defiling, Etc., Reservoir, Water Tank, Etc.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.300; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall mark, paint or stain any wall, fence, post, bridge or building not his/her own whether belonging to the City or to private individuals without lawful authority.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.310; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall in the streets or in the City discharge any rockets, powder, fireworks, squib, firecracker or any other dangerous device, provided that the City Council shall have power to authorize the discharge of fireworks upon special request.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
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State Law Reference: Authority of City to regulate discharge of fireworks, § 77.570, RSMo.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.340; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
It shall be unlawful in this City for the owner or person having charge of any barroom or saloon where intoxicating liquors are sold or given away or any licensed hall, alley, billiard room or poolroom where licensed pool or billiard tables are kept and used to permit any minor to loiter, loaf, lounge in or hang about any such places without the permission of the parents or guardian of such minor first having been obtained.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.350; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
Any person elected or appointed to any public office of this City who shall be intoxicated while in the performance of any official act or duty or shall become so intoxicated as to be incapacitated to perform any official act or duty at the time or in the manner required by law shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit his/her office.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.360; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall mount or climb upon, enter on or hang onto any passenger, freight, baggage or other car or hand car or locomotive engine while the same is in motion or is attached to or is forming a part of any train or cars or to any locomotive engine whether the same be in motion or is standing on any railroad track provided that nothing in this Section shall be so construed as to prevent any person from entering any railroad car or upon any railroad engine who has lawful authority to do so or who does so for legitimate travel or business.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.370; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall put or cause to be put any dead animal, carcass or any part thereof or any offal or other filth into any reservoir, water tank or tower used or for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of this City with water or shall in any manner or by any means defile, attempt to defile or cause to be defiled the water contained in any such reservoir, water tank or tower.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
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Editor's Note: See also § 210.2390, Placing Dead Animals, Offal, Etc., In Wells, Streams, Etc.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.380; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall remove, take down, deface, mark, injure or destroy any sign belonging to another without the consent of the owner thereof.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.410; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any trees or shrubs to plant, maintain or grow the same on the sidewalk portion of the street or highway at a distance of less than twenty (20) feet from any fire plug in the City, provided that this Section shall not apply to trees now growing and maintained within the prohibited distance above defined unless the City Council finds it necessary that the same be removed by reason of constituting a public hazard.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.420; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to plant, set out or grow any tree or shrub or maintain the same on the sidewalk or parkway portion of any public street or highway in the City at a distance of not less than twenty (20) feet from the corner of any block or any such public street or highway. Such measurement shall be computed from the point of intersection of two (2) lines extended parallel with the curblines or the intersecting streets producing such corners. This Section shall not affect present established trees or shrubs unless the City Council finds them a special hazard.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.430; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
Whenever the City Council provided for the construction of any public street, guttering or curbing for sidewalks and it becomes necessary to remove any tree, shrub or other plant growing, extending or standing upon or within such street, sidewalk, guttering or curbing the City Engineer shall be authorized to remove the same. The same provision shall apply wherever it becomes necessary to repair or reconstruct such sidewalk, street, guttering or curbing.
B. 
Whenever it becomes necessary to trim or remove any such tree, shrub or plant in order to comply with the provisions of this Chapter, the City Engineer shall supervise such work with the approval of the City Council. He/she shall be authorized to employ such assistance as may be necessary to do the work.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.440; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to plant or set out any trees, shrubs or other plants in the public streets or sidewalks without first obtaining a permit to do the same from the Street Committee and such Committee shall not grant such permit unless it complies with all of the provisions of this Chapter and unless the planting of such trees, shrubs or other plants do not constitute a hazard.
B. 
Failure to obtain the required permit prior to planting shall be an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.470; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. 
No person shall willfully molest, disturb, break, damage or in any manner wrongfully interfere with or injure the engines, boilers, pumps, towers, reservoirs, tanks, water gates or valves, mains, pipes, fire plugs, hydrants, drinking fountains or any other appliance or machinery belonging to the waterworks of this City or shall in any manner impede the flow of water through any of the water mains or pipes within this City.
B. 
Violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.560; Ord. No. 06-10049 § 3, 7-12-2006; Ord. No. 06-10136 § 4, 12-13-2006]
A. 
For purposes of this Section, the following term shall have the meaning below:
RESIDENCE
Any building which is designed or used exclusively for residential purposes, except hotels and motels.
B. 
It shall be unlawful to operate any power tool, garden tool, lawn mower, snow blower or other similar equipment or device within one thousand (1,000) feet of a residence except between the following hours:
October 1 through May 31
7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
June 1 through September 30
6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Monday through Friday
7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Saturday and Sunday
[R.O. 1992 § 210.570; Ord. No. 06-10049 § 2, 7-12-2006; Ord. No. 06-10136 § 3, 12-13-2006]
A. 
For purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
EMERGENCY WORK
Work necessary to restore property to a safe condition following a public calamity or work required to protect person or property from imminent exposure to danger.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT
Any vehicle or other device used in construction, including, but not limited to, large trucks, dump trucks, graders, bulldozers, pneumatic hammers, loaders, excavators, trenchers, backhoes, earth-moving equipment, dozers or air compressors.
RESIDENCE
Any building which is designed or used exclusively for residential purposes, except hotels and motels.
B. 
No person or entity shall cause or allow construction work of any kind that creates noise to include, but not limited to, hammering, running of motors, mixing materials, the operation of any heavy equipment, including, but not limited to, hauling, erection (including excavation), demolition or grading equipment nor allow the alteration or repair of any building or structure within one thousand (1,000) feet of a residence other than between the following hours:
October 1 through May 31
7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
June 1 through September 30
6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Monday through Friday
7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Saturday and Sunday
C. 
After sixty (60) calendar days after commencement of the work, no person or entity shall cause or allow construction work of any kind that creates noise, to include, but not limited to, hammering, running of motors, mixing materials, the operation of any heavy equipment, including, but not limited to, hauling, erection (including excavation), demolition or grading equipment nor allow the alteration or repair of any building or structure within one thousand (1,000) feet of a residence other than between the following hours:
January 1 through December 31
7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M., Monday through Friday
D. 
The following shall constitute exceptions to the time limitations specified in this Section:
1. 
Emergency work to repair or maintain public/private utility facilities;
2. 
Emergency work to repair equipment or facilities damaged or rendered inoperable as a direct result of unavoidable damage or upset conditions;
3. 
The repair, maintenance or construction of public highway.