[CC 1992 §200.020; Ord. No. 174 §§1 — 2, 10-21-1970]
A. The Concordia
Fire Protection District, Inc., a Missouri not-for-profit corporation
and authorized for the purposes of fire protection for a district
and area in and around the City of Concordia, Missouri, is hereby
authorized to furnish fire protection, including fire-fighting equipment
and personnel, for the City of Concordia, Missouri.
B. Said
Concordia Fire Protection District, Inc., is further authorized to
use the City streets, alleys, roadways and fireplugs for the purposes
of fighting fires and for such other purposes normally used by the
City Fire Department; and, further, to use such other facilities necessary
to protect the citizens, his/her property and lives from fire and
other causes within the corporate limits of the City.
[CC 1992 §215.040; Ord. No. 364 §§A — E, 8-4-1986; Ord. No. 492 §A, 5-20-1996]
A. Any person,
firm or corporation who shall sell fireworks, torpedoes or fireworks
of any kind, except on July fourth (4th) or during the period of three
(3) days previous to July fourth (4th) or at any other time during
the year, unless having received a special permit from the Board of
Aldermen, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
B. Any person
who shall burn, explode or send off any fireworks, torpedoes or firecrackers
of any kind on public streets, sidewalks, parks, or any public place
at any time shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Persons may use
fireworks on his/her own property or property of others, if permission
is granted, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M. July first
(1st), second (2nd), and third (3rd) and between the hours of 8:00
A.M. and 12:00 P.M. July fourth (4th), provided when handling and
discharge of fireworks is in the care of professional or experienced
persons. A fireworks display may be permitted at any public event,
but only when special permission of the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen
is first obtained.
C. It shall
be unlawful to attempt to sell or to sell at retail any fireworks
to children under the age of fourteen (14) years except when such
child is in the presence of a parent or guardian.
D. It shall
be unlawful to explode or ignite fireworks within six hundred (600)
feet of any church, hospital, asylum, public school, or within one
hundred (100) feet of where fireworks are stored, sold or offered
for sale.
E. No person
shall ignite or discharge any permissible articles of fireworks within
or throw the same from a motor vehicle nor shall any person place
or throw any ignited article of fireworks into or at a motor vehicle,
or at or near any person or group of people. Any demonstrating or
testing shall require the notification and approval of the local fire
service.
[CC 1992 §225.041; Ord. No. 483 §225.041, 10-2-1995]
No person shall kindle, set fire to, or burn any leaves, paper,
trash, tree branches or other flammable material whatsoever in or
upon any public street or gutter.
[CC 1992 §225.120; Ord. No. 331 §9, 1-4-1982]
Any house, building or tank within the City used for the special
or exclusive storage of powder, dynamite, nitroglycerin, coal oil
or other explosive substances detrimental to the public health, or
where endangering quantities of such explosives are kept exposed or
insecure for the purpose of display or in any manner so as to endanger
human life is hereby declared a nuisance.