[CC §§11.01 — 11.03; Ord. No. 32, 12-16-1974]
A. It
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation within this
City to sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, use, discharge, or
manufacture any blank cartridge, toy pistol, toy cannon or any related
item or thing in which explosives are used, or firecrackers, torpedoes,
sky-rockets, Roman candles, aerial salutes, bombs, electric sparklers
or sparklers, colored fires, or colored torches or displays, or any
other fireworks of any kind, character, or description whatsoever.
B. Fireworks Displays. Nothing contained in Subsection
(A) shall prohibit the sale or use of fireworks for pyrotechnic displays given by any fair association, amusement park, the official in charge of any public park, any civic or public organization or group of individuals, any of whom shall have respectively first obtained a permit from the City Manager for such display; nor shall anything in Subsection
(A) prohibit the sale or use of blank cartridges for theatrical purposes, signal purposes in athletic contests or sports events, or for the use of militia, police or military organizations.
C. Permits For Fireworks Displays. The City Manager is hereby
authorized to issue permits for pyrotechnic displays to fair associations,
amusement parks, officials in charge of public parks, civic or public
organizations, or groups of individuals, provided that no such permit
shall be issued except upon application therefor, and provided further,
that the City Manager is convinced that the public safety will not
be endangered by such display.
[CC §11.11 — 11.13; Ord. No. 70, 10-20-1975]
A. Firearms. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or
discharge any kind of firearms within the corporate limits of the
City of St. John.
B. Openly Carrying Firearms.
1.
The open carrying of firearms shall not be prohibited in accordance
with the following:
[Ord. No. 1050 §§1 — 2, 12-1-2014]
a.
Any person who is openly carrying a firearm shall be required
to have a valid concealed carry endorsement or permit issued by the
State of Missouri, or a permit from another state that is recognized
by the State of Missouri in his/her possession at all times.
b.
Any person openly carrying a firearm within the corporate limits
of the City of St. John shall display his or her concealed carry endorsement
or permit upon demand of a law enforcement officer.
c.
In the absence of any reasonable and articulable suspicion of
criminal activity, no person carrying a concealed or unconcealed firearm
shall be disarmed or physically restrained by a law enforcement officer
unless under arrest.
2.
Any person who is found in violation of this Subsection shall, upon conviction, be subject to the penalty prescribed in Section
100.010.
C. Pellet Guns, Etc. It shall be unlawful for any person to
use or discharge any type of pellet gun, BB gun, bow and arrow or
any other type of gun or instrument which shall propel by spring,
cord or air any missile, shaft, arrow or pellet within the corporate
limits of the City of St. John.
D. Exceptions. The provisions of this Section shall not apply
to a Police Officer while in the discharge of his duty or to any person
on duty in the military corps and acting under the orders of a commanding
officer thereof or to any person or persons who shall apply to the
Chief of Police of the City of St. John and receive permission therefor.
[Ord. No. 717 §1, 10-15-2001]
A. A person
commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons if he knowingly:
1. Possesses or discharges a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated;
or
2. Discharges a firearm within one hundred (100) yards of any occupied
school house, courthouse, or church building; or
3. 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
4. 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 school, 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.
5. No person shall carry a firearm, knife or any other weapon readily
capable of lethal force concealed upon or about his/her person.
B. Subdivisions (2), (3) and (4) of Subsection
(A) of this Section shall not apply to or affect any of the following:
1. All State, County and Municipal Law Enforcement 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, 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;
5. Any person whose bona fide duty is to execute process, civil or criminal.
C. Subdivisions (1) and (4) 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.
[Ord. No. 794 §1, 4-5-2004]
A. No
person who has been issued a concealed carry endorsement by the Missouri
Director of Revenue under Sections 571.101 to 571.121, 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.
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. 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.
E. 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. No other penalty shall be imposed for
a violation of this Section.
[CC §18.040; Ord.
No. 305, 8-17-1987]
Abandonment of an airtight icebox with a door is an offense.
No person shall abandon, discard, or knowingly permit to remain on
premises under his control, in a place accessible to children, any
abandoned or discarded iceboxes, refrigerator or other airtight or
semi-airtight container which has a capacity of one and one-half (1½)
cubic feet or more and an opening of fifty (50) square inches or more
and which has a door or lid, without rendering such equipment harmless
to human life by removing such door or lid which may cause a person
to be confined therein. 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, warehouseman or repairman.
Any person violating this Section is guilty of a misdemeanor.