[Ord. No. 24.016(a) §1, 12-6-1993]
A. A person
shall commit the offense of peace disturbance if:
1. He/she unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person
or persons by:
b. Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific
individual and uttered under circumstances that are likely to produce
an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient;
c. Threatening to commit a felonious act against any person under circumstances
that are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear that such a threat
may be carried out;
e. Creating a noxious and offensive odor.
2. He/she is in a public place or on private property of another without
consent and purposely causes inconvenience to another person or persons
by unreasonably and physically obstructing:
a. Vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
b. The free ingress or egress to or from a public or private place.
[Ord. No. 2005-027 §1, 12-6-2004]
A. A person
commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he or she knowingly:
1. Carries concealed upon or about his or her person a knife, a firearm,
a blackjack or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use; or
3. Discharges or shoots a firearm into a dwelling house, a railroad
train, boat, aircraft, or motor vehicle as defined in Section 302.010,
RSMo., or any building or structure used for the assembling of people;
or
4. Exhibits, in the presence of one (1) or more persons, any weapon
readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner; or
5. Possesses or discharges a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated;
or
6. Discharges a firearm within one hundred (100) yards of any occupied
schoolhouse, courthouse, or church building; or
7. Discharges or shoots a firearm at a mark, at any object, or at random
on, along or across a public highway or discharges or shoots a firearm
into any outbuilding; or
8. Carries a firearm or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use
into any church or place where people have assembled for worship,
or into any election precinct on any election day, or into any building
owned or occupied by any agency of the Federal Government, State Government,
or political subdivision thereof, or into any public assemblage of
persons met for any lawful purpose; or
9. Discharges or shoots a firearm at or from a motor vehicle, as defined
in Section 301.010, RSMo., discharges or shoots a firearm at any person,
or at any other motor vehicle, or at any building or habitable structure,
unless the person was lawfully acting in self-defense; or
10. Carries a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any other weapon
readily capable of lethal use into any school, onto any school bus,
or onto the premises of any function or activity sponsored or sanctioned
by school officials or the district school board.
B. Subdivisions (1), (3), (4), (6), (7), (8), (9) and (10) of Subsection
(A) of this Section shall not apply to or affect any of the following:
1. All State, County and municipal Peace Officers possessing the duty
and power of arrest for violation of the general criminal laws of
the State or for violation of ordinances of Counties or municipalities
of the State, whether such officers are within or outside their jurisdictions
or on or off duty, or any person summoned by such officers to assist
in making arrests or preserving the peace while actually engaged in
assisting such officer;
2. Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries,
jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused
or convicted of crime;
3. Members of the Armed Forces or National Guard while performing their
official duty;
4. Those persons vested by Article
V, Section 1 of the Constitution of Missouri with the judicial power of the State and those persons vested by Article III of the Constitution of the United States with the judicial power of the United States, the members of the Federal judiciary;
5. Any person whose bona fide duty is to execute process, civil or criminal;
6. Any Federal Probation Officer;
7. Any State Probation or Parole Officer, including supervisors and
members of the Board of Probation and Parole;
8. Any corporate security advisor meeting the definition and fulfilling
the requirements of the regulations established by the Board of Police
Commissioners under Section 84.340, RSMo.; and
9. Any coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner, or assistant medical
examiner.
C. Subdivisions (1), (5), (8) and (10) of Subsection
(A) of this Section do not apply when the actor is transporting such weapons in a non-functioning state or in an unloaded state when ammunition is not readily accessible or when such weapons are not readily accessible. Subdivision (1) of Subsection
(A) of this Section does not apply to any person twenty-one (21) years of age or older transporting a concealable firearm in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, so long as such concealable firearm is otherwise lawfully possessed, nor when the actor is also in possession of an exposed firearm or projectile weapon for the lawful pursuit of game, or is in his or her dwelling unit or upon premises over which the actor has possession, authority or control, or is traveling in a continuous journey peaceably through this State. Subdivision (10) of Subsection
(A) of this Section does not apply if the firearm is otherwise lawfully possessed by a person while traversing school premises for the purposes of transporting a student to or from school, or possessed by an adult for the purposes of facilitation of a school-sanctioned firearm-related event.
D. Subdivisions (1), (8) and (10) of Subsection
(A) of this Section shall not apply to any person who has a valid concealed carry endorsement issued pursuant to Section 571.094, RSMo., or a valid permit or endorsement to carry concealed firearms issued by another State or political subdivision of another State.
E. Subdivisions (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) and (10) of Subsection
(A) of this Section shall not apply to persons who are engaged in a lawful act of defense pursuant to Section 563.031, RSMo.
F. Nothing
in this Section shall make it unlawful for a student to actually participate
in school-sanctioned gun safety courses, student military or ROTC
courses, or other school-sponsored firearm-related events, provided
the student does not carry a firearm or other weapon readily capable
of lethal use into any school, onto any school bus, or onto the premises
of any other function or activity sponsored or sanctioned by school
officials or the district school board.
G. Firearms In City Buildings.
1. No person who has been issued a concealed carry endorsement by the
Missouri Director of Revenue under Section 571.094, RSMo., or who
has been issued a valid permit or endorsement to carry concealed firearms
issued by another State or political subdivision of another State
shall, by authority of that endorsement or permit, be allowed to carry
a concealed firearm or to openly carry a firearm in any building or
portion of a building owned, leased or controlled by the City.
2. Signs shall be posted at each entrance of a building entirely owned,
leased or controlled by the City stating that carrying of firearms
is prohibited. Where the City owns, leases or controls only a portion
of a building, signs shall be posted at each entrance to that portion
of the building stating that carrying of firearms is prohibited.
3. This Section shall not apply to buildings used for public housing
by private persons, highways or rest areas, firing ranges, or private
dwellings owned, leased or controlled by the City.
4. Any person violating this Section may be denied entrance to the building
or ordered to leave the building. Any City employee violating this
Section may be disciplined.
5. No person who has been issued a certificate of qualification which
allows the person to carry a concealed firearm before the Director
of Revenue begins issuing concealed carry endorsements in July, 2004,
shall, by authority of that certificate, be allowed to carry a concealed
firearm or to openly carry a firearm in any building or portion of
a building owned, leased or controlled by the City.
[Ch. 24 §24.014; Ord. No. 24.014(A) §2, 5-6-1991]
A. No
person shall fire or discharge any firearms or ammunition therefor
in the City, except for one (1) of the following purposes:
1. The firing of salutes pursuant to military services and funerals.
2. The firing of a firearm by one whose business entails the testing
of firearms in established facilities constructed and maintained for
such purposes.
3. The firing of same on a regularly established range pursuant to a
valid occupational license.
4. The firing of the same by a Police Officer in the performance of
his/her official duty or by any person in lawful defense of his/her
person or property.
B. No
person shall fire, propel or discharge (whichever is applicable) a
BB gun, air rifle, air pistol, pellet gun, bow and arrow, crossbow,
or compound bow, or any other instrument or weapon which could be
dangerous or deadly when so discharged or propelled:
1. Across or onto a public street or public way.
2. Across or onto the property of another, other than the property of
a parent or guardian.
3. In any other situation so as to endanger the life or personal property
of another.
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 this City, State or
of the United States with force or violence, and thereafter, while
still so assembled, does violate any of said laws with force or violence.