A person commits the offense of littering if he/she throws or
places or causes to be thrown or placed 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 on any private real property owned by another without
his/her consent.
Whoever willfully or maliciously poisons, defiles or in any
way corrupts the water of a well, spring, brook or reservoir used
for domestic or municipal purposes, or whoever willfully or maliciously
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 their use, shall
be adjudged guilty of an ordinance violation and punished by a fine
not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not exceeding
ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall
be liable to the party injured for three (3) times the actual damage
sustained, to be recovered by suit at law.
[CC 1975 §8-47; Ord. No. 742 §1, 9-3-1992]
A. Except as provided in Subsection
(C) hereof, it shall be unlawful for any person within the City limits to fire, sell, set off, use, burn, explode or discharge any firecracker, torpedo, bomb, rocket, pinwheel, fire balloon, Roman candle, toy cannon, aerial salute or any other fireworks; provided however, that this Section shall not apply to any fireworks display by any person who is issued a permit by the Board of Aldermen, when it is satisfied that the public safety will not be endangered by such display.
B. It
shall be unlawful for any natural parent, legal guardian or other
person having any minor under the age of seventeen (17) years under
his/her legal or actual control to knowingly allow said minor to set
off or discharge fireworks in violation of the provisions of this
Section.
C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections
(A) and
(B) above, it shall be lawful for all persons seventeen (17) years of age or older and all persons under the age of seventeen (17) years who are supervised by a parent or legal guardian to discharge fireworks, the possession of which is not prohibited by any State or Federal law, within the City limits during the hours of 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Midnight on July third (3rd) and July fourth (4th) of each calendar year.
[Ord. No. 18-08 (210.208), 7-19-2018]
Any convenience store or gasoline station located within the
City limits of Billings, Missouri, shall require pre-payment on the
purchases of gasoline, diesel fuel or other fuels before dispensing
said products to consumers.