[R.O. 2007 § 210.310; CC 1979 § 20-10; Ord. No. 283 §§ 1
— 3, 9-20-1976]
A. It shall be unlawful for any minor under
the age of seventeen (17) years to loiter, idle, wander, stroll, drive
or ride in or on any wheeled vehicle or play in or upon the public
streets, highways, roads, parks, playgrounds or other public grounds,
public places, public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment,
vacant lots or other unsupervised places within the City between the
hours of 11:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. of the following day, official local
time, except on Fridays and Saturdays, when the hours shall be 12:00
Midnight to 6:00 A.M. of the following day, official local time; except,
that this Section shall not apply to a minor accompanied by his/her
parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody
of the minor, or where the minor is upon an emergency errand or legitimate
business directed by his/her parent, guardian or other adult person
having the care and custody of the minor.
B. It shall also be unlawful for the parent,
guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor
under the age of seventeen (17) years to knowingly permit such minor
to violate this Section.
C. Any Police Officer finding a child violating
this Section shall warn the child to desist immediately from such
violation and take the child home to his/her parent or guardian or
an adult relative or responsible adult friend. If the parent or guardian,
adult relative or responsible adult friend cannot be located, such
Police Officer shall retain custody of such child until the parent
or guardian is located and the child delivered to him/her.
[R.O. 2007 § 210.320; Ord. No. 2704 § 1, 7-10-1997]
From and after the effective date
of this Section, July 10, 1997, it shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, partnership or corporation, whether licensed to conduct business
in the City of St. Peters or not, to sell or offer to sell in the
City of St. Peters to any person under eighteen (18) years of age
any device or instrument designed for the piercing or branding of
the human body or its skin which device or instrument has as a purpose
the attachment of objects of adornment to the human body.
[R.O. 2007 § 210.330; Ord. No. 2818 §§ 1
— 8, 2-26-1998]
A. It shall be unlawful to knowingly perform
a body art procedure on any minor without the written consent of that
person's parent or legal guardian. That consent is required to be
given in person to the body artist by the parent or legal guardian
before the body artist may perform the body art procedure. In addition,
the parent or legal guardian must present identification to the body
artist and the body artist must retain a copy of the identification
for their records. The parent or legal guardian must be present in
the procedure area at the time of the procedure.
[Ord. No. 7373, 10-22-2020]
B. Definitions. For the purposes of this Section,
the following definitions shall be used:
BODY PIERCING
The perforation of human tissue other than an ear for a non-medical
purpose.
BRANDING
A permanent mark made on human tissue by burning with a hot
iron or other instrument.
MINOR
Any person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
PARENT
Any person who is over the age of eighteen (18) years and
is either the natural or adoptive parent (whose parental rights have
not been terminated) of a minor or the legal guardian or foster parent
of a minor. Except as may be otherwise applicable, if the minor is
illegitimate, "parent" shall mean the natural mother. As used herein,
"parent" does not include any sibling or other relative, regardless
of age, or relation, unless such person is the adoptive parent, foster
parent or legal guardian of such minor.
PROOF OF AGE
A driver's license or other documentary or written evidence
that an individual is eighteen (18) years of age or older.
C. Proof Of Age. A person performing body
piercing or branding shall require proof of age from any prospective
customer unless such person has reasonable or certain knowledge that
the prospective customer is eighteen (18) years of age or older. The
person performing body piercing or branding shall retain for inspection
by the City all parental consent records for six (6) months from the
date of their execution.
D. Joint Responsibility — Vicarious
Responsibility. Every act or omission of whatsoever nature constituting
a violation of any of the provisions of this Section by any officer,
director, manager or other agent or employee of the owner of any establishment
where body piercing or branding is performed shall be deemed and held
to be the act of such owner of the establishment as well as such officer,
director, manager, or other agent or employee; such owner shall also
be punishable in the same manner as if such act or omission had been
done or omitted by the owner personally.
E. Compliance Monitoring. The City shall have
the authority to monitor compliance with this Section in a manner
that can reasonably be expected to reduce the extent to which body
piercing or branding is performed on minors without parental consent.
1.
The City may conduct random unannounced
enforcement checks at locations where body piercing or branding is
performed.
2.
Persons under the age of eighteen
(18) years may be enlisted to test compliance with this Section; provided
however, that such persons may be used to test compliance only if
written parental consent is on file with the City, and only under
the auspices and supervision of the City.
3.
Private organizations may involve
themselves in compliance activities through the City. Any activities
to test compliance with the provision of this Section shall be under
the supervision and auspices of the City.
F. Enforcement. The enforcement of these regulations
established by this Section shall be the responsibility of the City
Police Department.
G. Penalty. Any person found guilty of violating
this Section shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation punishable
by and in accordance with the ordinances of this City.
[R.O. 2007 § 615.150; CC 1979 § 14-73.1; Ord. No. 1885 § 2, 6-25-1992]
A. The owner of an establishment at which
vapor products, alternative nicotine products, tobacco products or
rolling papers are sold at retail or through vending machines shall
cause to be prominently displayed in a conspicuous place at every
display from which vapor products, alternative nicotine products or
tobacco products are sold and on every vending machine where vapor
products, alternative nicotine products or tobacco products are purchased
a sign that shall:
1.
Contain in red lettering at least
one-half (1/2) inch high on a white background the following: "It
is a violation of State law and City ordinances for vapor products,
alternative nicotine products, cigarettes or other tobacco products
to be sold to any person under the age of eighteen (18)"; and
2.
Include a depiction of a pack of
cigarettes at least two (2) inches high defaced by a red diagonal
diameter of a surrounding red circle, and the words "Under 18."
[R.O. 2007 § 615.160; CC 1979 § 14-73.2; Ord. No. 1885 § 3, 6-25-1992; Ord.
No. 2615 §§ 2 — 3, 1-9-1997]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
distribute a sample in or on any public street, sidewalk or park that
is within five hundred (500) feet of any publicly owned playground,
day-care center or public school or other bona fide educational institution
used for classes, sponsored by any person, firm or corporation, public
or private.
B. It shall be unlawful for any licensee or
any person in the business of selling or otherwise distributing, promoting
or advertising tobacco products, alternative nicotine products or
vapor products, or any employee or agent of any such licensee or person,
in the course of such licensee's or person's business, to distribute,
give away or deliver a sample to any person on any public right-of-way,
park, playground or other property owned by the City of St. Peters.
[Ord. No.
6225 § 2, 9-25-2014]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
sell, give, provide or distribute any tobacco product, alternative
nicotine product or vapor product to any person under the age of eighteen
(18) years, including through a vending machine owned by the person
or over which such person has control. It shall be a defense to prosecution
under this Section if:
1.
The person sold, gave, provided or
distributed the tobacco product, alternative nicotine product or vapor
product to the person under the age of eighteen (18) years with reasonable
cause to believe that such person was eighteen (18) or more years
of age; and
2.
To purchase the tobacco product,
alternative nicotine product or vapor product, the person under the
age of eighteen (18) years exhibited a proof of age purporting to
establish that such person was at least eighteen (18) years of age.
B. Before selling, giving, providing or distributing
any tobacco product, alternative nicotine product or vapor product
to a person that appears to be under twenty-seven (27) years of age,
the person selling, giving, providing or distributing the tobacco
product, alternative nicotine product or vapor product shall verify
that the purchaser or receiver of the tobacco product, alternative
nicotine product or vapor product is at least eighteen (18) years
of age by:
1.
Examining a proof of age that establishes
that the person is at least eighteen (18) years of age; or
2.
For sales made through the internet
or other remote sales methods, performing an age verification through
an independent, third-party age verification service that compares
information available from public records to the personal information
entered by the person during the ordering process that establishes
the person is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person who
has an ownership interest in any real property or who exerts control
over any real property, or who is an agent, employee, or lessee of
a person with an ownership interest or who exerts control over such
real property, or an agent or employee of such a lessee, to knowingly
permit the use of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products
or vapor products by any person under the age of eighteen (18) years
on such property, unless such person allowing the person under the
age of eighteen (18) years to use tobacco products, alternative nicotine
products or vapor products is his or her parent or guardian.
D. It shall be unlawful for any person under
the age of eighteen (18) years to purchase, possess, attempt to purchase
or accept receipt of any tobacco product, alternative nicotine product
or vapor product, unless such person is an employee of a seller of
tobacco product, alternative nicotine product or vapor products and
is in such possession to effect a sale in the course of employment,
or to present or offer to any person a purported proof of age in violation
of Section 302.220, RSMo., or which is false, fraudulent, or belongs
to another person for the purpose of purchasing, possessing, attempting
to purchase or receiving any tobacco product, alternative nicotine
product or vapor product.
E. Any person who violates Subsection
(A),
(B),
(C), or
(D) of this Section may be prosecuted therefor and, upon conviction, subject to a fine:
1.
For the first offense, twenty-five
dollars ($25.00).
2.
For the second offense, one hundred
dollars ($100.00).
3.
For a third and subsequent offenses,
two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
F. It is not a violation of this Section for
a person under the age of eighteen (18) years to purchase or possess
a tobacco product, alternative nicotine product or vapor product if
such person purchases, possesses, attempts to purchase or accepts
receipt of any tobacco product, alternative nicotine product or vapor
product pursuant to a plan or action to investigate, patrol, or otherwise
conduct a sting operation or enforcement action against a seller of
tobacco products, alternative nicotine products or vapor products
or a person employed by a seller of tobacco products, alternative
nicotine products or vapor products or on any premises authorized
to sell tobacco products, alternative nicotine products or vapor products
to determine if tobacco products, alternative nicotine products or
vapor products are being sold, offered for sale, given, provided or
distributed to persons under the age of eighteen (18) years if the
sting operation or enforcement action is approved by the City of St.
Peters Police Department, or other Law Enforcement Agency.