A person commits the offense of littering if he or she places, deposits, or causes to be placed or deposited, any glass, glass bottles, wire, nails, tacks, hedge, cans, garbage, trash, refuse, or rubbish of any kind, nature or description on the right-of-way of any public road or State highway or on or in any of the waters in this City or on the banks of any stream, or on any land or water owned, operated or leased by the State, any board, department, agency or commission thereof or on any land or water owned, operated or leased by the Federal Government or the City, or on any private real property owned by another without the owner's consent.
No person shall corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake.
It shall be unlawful for any owner or lessee of any real property in the City of Riverside, Missouri, to maintain a gas meter in or adjacent to a commercial parking area, unless the meter is provided with adequate protection from vehicular traffic.
No person, firm or corporation shall keep, maintain or have upon his/her premises any open wells or cisterns.
[Ord. No. 1520 § 1, 3-7-2017; Ord. No. 1604, 7-3-2018]
A. Definitions. As used in this Section, the following words shall have the meanings set out below:
CITY The City of Riverside, Missouri.
FIREWORKS Explosive devices designed primarily to produce visible or audible effects by combustion and includes aerial devices and ground devices, all of which are classified as fireworks, UN0336 within 49 CFR Part 172.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or discharge any "bottle rockets," as defined in Section
605.320(A), within any part of the City.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to use, ignite or discharge any fireworks within any of the following areas in the City:
1. Within six hundred (600) feet of any church, hospital, medical facility, asylum, public school, library or day care facility; or
2. Within three hundred (300) feet of a permanent structure where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale; or
3. On any public or private property without the permission of the owner or other person having control of such property; or
4. Within or throw the same from a motor vehicle, or place or throw the same into or at a motor vehicle, or at or near any person or group of people; or
5. Within three hundred (300) feet of any gasoline pump, gasoline filling station or any non-permanent structure where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale; or within three hundred (300) feet of any structure which is marked according to the National Fire Protection Association's Hazardous Material Identification System as "flammable" or "water reactive."
D. Nothing in Subsection
(C) shall be construed to prevent persons with licenses issued pursuant to Section
605.320 from demonstrating or testing
fireworks provided that any such demonstration or test shall require the notification and the written approval of the Fire Marshall.
E. Fireworks may only be used, ignited and/or discharged at the following times:
1. From 10:00 P.M. on December thirty-first (31st) until 1:00 A.M. on January first (1st); and
2. From 10:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. each day during the period of June twenty-sixth (26th) to July second (2nd) and on July fifth (5th); and
3. From 10:00 A.M.to 12:00 A.M. (Midnight) each day on July third (3rd) and July fourth (4th).
F. Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and such imprisonment. Each instance of unlawful use or discharge shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.