[R.O. 2012 §215.300; CC 1992 §13-61; Ord. No. 1633, 4-11-1983]
A. A person
commits the offense of private peace disturbance if he/she is on private
property and unreasonably and purposely causes alarm to another person
on the same premises by:
1. Threatening to commit an offense against any person; or
[R.O. 2012 §215.310; CC 1992 §13-62; Ord. No. 1633, 4-11-1983]
For purposes of Sections
215.290 and
215.300, the following terms shall have the meanings designated in this Section:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time is not open to the public. It
includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time is open to the public. It includes
property which is owned publicly or privately.
SEPARATE PREMISES
If a building or structure is divided into separately occupied
units, such units are separate premises.
[R.O. 2012 §215.320; CC 1992 §13-63; Ord. No. 1633, 4-11-1983]
A person commits the offense of unlawful assembly if he/she
knowingly assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees
with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of the City,
the State or the United States with force or violence.
[R.O. 2012 §215.330; CC 1992 §13-64; Ord. No. 1633, 4-11-1983]
A person commits the offense of rioting if he/she knowingly
assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees with such
persons to violate any of the criminal laws of the City, the State
or the United States with force or violence, and thereafter, while
still so assembled, does violate any of such laws with force or violence.
[R.O. 2012 §215.340; CC 1992 §13-65; Ord. No. 1633, 4-11-1983]
A person commits the offense of refusal to disperse if, being
present at the scene of an unlawful assembly or at the scene of a
riot, he/she knowingly fails or refuses to obey the lawful command
of a Law Enforcement Officer to depart from the scene of such unlawful
assembly or riot.
[R.O. 2012 §215.350; CC 1992 §13-67; Ord. No. 1633, 4-11-1983; Ord. No. 3647 §1, 6-13-2011; Ord. No. 4618, 8-14-2023]
A. A person
commits the offense of discharging fireworks, as defined in Section
320.106, RSMo., if he/she shall set off, use, burn, explode, or fire
any firecrackers, fireworks, torpedoes, bombs, rockets, pinwheels,
fire balloons, Roman candles, toy cannons or any other fireworks of
a like kind, except between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M.
on the fourth (4th) day of July each year.
B. The
Board of Aldermen may approve an application by any party for a display
of fireworks, as defined in Section 320.106, RSMo., if for Board-approved
special events.
C. Notwithstanding
the foregoing authorization to discharge fireworks on the fourth (4th)
of July each year, or for Board-approved special events:
1. It is unlawful, at any time, to explode or ignite consumer fireworks
within six hundred (600) feet of any church, hospital, mental health
facility, school, or within one hundred (100) feet of any location
where fireworks are stored, sold, or offered for sale.
2. No person shall, at any time, ignite or discharge any permissible
articles of consumer fireworks within or throw the same from a motorized
vehicle including watercraft or any other means of transportation,
except where a display permit has been issued for a floating vessel
or floating platform, nor shall any person place or throw any ignited
article of fireworks into or at a motorized vehicle including watercraft
or any other means of transportation, or at or near any person or
group of people.
3. No person shall, at any time, ignite or discharge consumer fireworks
within three hundred (300) feet of any permanent storage of ignitable
liquid, gases, gasoline pump, gasoline filling station, or any non-permanent
structure where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale.
4. No person shall at any time, ignite or discharge consumer fireworks
any time during a period of moderate drought, severe drought, extreme
drought, or exceptional drought as indicated by the U.S. Drought Monitor
published by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
[R.O. 2012 §215.360; CC 1992 §13-68; Ord. No. 1633, 4-11-1983]
A person commits the offense of selling fireworks if he/she
shall sell or cause to be sold within the corporate limits of the
City, either at retail or at wholesale, any fireworks as defined in
Section 320.106, RSMo.