A.
A person commits the offense of abandonment of an airtight or semi-airtight
container if he or she knowingly abandons, discards, or permits to
remain on premises under his or her control, in a place accessible
to children, any abandoned or discarded icebox, refrigerator, or other
airtight or semi-airtight container which has a capacity of one and
one-half (1 1/2) cubic feet or more and an opening of fifty (50)
square inches or more and which has a door or lid equipped with hinge,
latch or other fastening device capable of securing such door or lid,
without rendering such equipment harmless to human life by removing
such hinges, latches or other hardware which may cause a person to
be confined therein.
B.
Subsection (A) of this Section does not apply to an icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container located in that part of a building occupied by a dealer, warehouse operator or repair person.
D.
The offense of abandonment of an airtight or semi-airtight container
is an ordinance violation.
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.
A.
A person commits the offense of unlawful disposition of a dead animal
if he or she knowingly places or causes to be placed the carcass or
offal of any dead animal:
A.
A person
commits the offense of tampering with a water supply if he or she
purposely:
1.
Poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts the water of a well, spring,
brook or reservoir used for domestic or municipal purposes; or
2.
Diverts, dams up and holds back from its natural course and flow
any spring, brook or other water supply for domestic or municipal
purposes, after said water supply shall have once been taken for use
by any person or persons, corporation, town or city for his/her, their
or its use.
B.
The
offense of tampering with a water supply is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2009 §13-179; Code 1969 §25-28]
Open and abandoned excavations upon property lying within the
City are deemed to be attractive and dangerous nuisances to children
and to be, in other respects, a menace to the public health and safety.
Therefore, it shall be unlawful for any owner or lessee of such property
to cause an excavation to be made thereon in connection with any lawful
construction project and thereafter to abandon such project without
completely filling or completely covering the excavations thus made.
For the purpose of this Section a project and excavation shall be
deemed "abandoned" if no work is performed upon or about such project
for seven (7) consecutive days. Whenever it shall appear that the
project, in connection with which an excavation was either wholly
or partially made, has been abandoned and that such excavation has
not been completely filled or completely covered, the Building Official
shall cause a written notice to be served upon the owner or lessee
of such property, either personally or by registered mail, calling
attention to the existence of such excavation, the apparent abandonment
of the project in connection with which the same was made and directing
that the excavation be completely filled or completely covered within
a period of ninety (90) days from the date of such notice. During
such time as an excavation is not abandoned and while work about such
excavation is not being performed, the perimeter of such excavation
shall be adequately marked, barricaded or roped off so as to identify
the location thereof.
[R.O. 2009 §13-180; Code 1969 §25-21]
It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt birds or small animals
with dogs, guns, stones or other kinds of missiles or weapons within
this City.
[R.O. 2009 §13-203; Code 1969 §30-5]
It shall be unlawful to store or leave standing or placed upon
any public right-of-way or other public property within this City
any discarded machine, apparatus or vehicle or any junk, refuse, waste
or equipment of any kind for the purpose of storing, selling or maintaining
the same during periods of non-use.
[R.O. 2009 §13-204; Code 1969 §25-15]
No person shall obstruct the passage of any water or suffer
the same to be done by any other person under his/her control, so
as to cause water or any other fluid matter to flow upon the premises
of another or upon any street, alley, square or other public property
of any description and shall fail to remove such obstruction within
five (5) hours after being instructed so to do by the Chief of Police,
other Police Officer or any member of the Board of Aldermen.
[R.O. 2009 §13-207]
A.
In
this Section "hazardous waste" or "hazardous
substance" means any substance or waste defined as such by
Federal or State Statute or by rule or regulation of the Federal or
State Governments.
B.
The
owner or operator of any premises upon which any incident involving
the exposure of human beings to hazardous wastes or hazardous substances
or the introduction into the environment of hazardous wastes or hazardous
substances shall report same to the Chief of the Fire Department.
Such reports shall be made within twenty-four (24) hours of the incident.
[R.O. 2009 §13-208; Ord. No. 3039 §1, 11-6-1989; Ord. No. 3592 §1, 3-16-1998]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person within this City to sell, offer for
sale, expose for sale, use or discharge any firecrackers, bottle rockets,
Roman candles or other fireworks of like construction or any other
fireworks containing any explosives of like construction or any fireworks
containing any explosives or flammable compounds, except displays
authorized by special use permit. However, "fireworks" does not include
auto flares, sparklers, fountains, paper caps containing less than
an average of one-quarter (¼) of a grain of explosive content
per cap or devices for use of such caps, the sale and use of which
shall be permitted at all times.
B.
It
shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian or other adult person having
care and custody of a minor under the age of seventeen (17) years
to knowingly permit such minor to violate the provisions of this Section
or, after becoming aware that such minor is violating the provisions
of this Section or intending to violate the provisions of this Section,
to fail to terminate or prevent such violation.
