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.
[Ord. No. 353 §78.010, 6-6-1995; Ord. No. 373 §75.270, 2-6-2001; Ord. No. 412 §1, 7-12-2005]
A. No person shall keep, possess, sell, unless by permit only, distribute or discharge rockets, powder, aerial fireworks or other dangerous combustible materials in the streets or within the City limits of the City of Sparta except as permitted in Subsections
(B) and
(C).
B. Other
fireworks may only be discharged within the City limits seven (7)
days prior to July 4 and seven (7) days after July 4 of each year
between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M., except that on July
4 only, said fireworks may be discharged between the hours of 8:00
A.M. and 11:00 P.M.
[Ord. No. 469, 6-8-2010]
C. The
Board of Aldermen shall have the power to adopt reasonable rules and
regulations for the granting of permits for supervised, public displays
of fireworks by jurisdictions, fair associations, amusement parks
or other organizations. Every such use or display shall be handled
by a competent operator approved by the Fire Chief of the City of
Sparta and shall be of such character and so located, discharged or
fired so as, in the opinion of the Fire Chief of the City of Sparta
after proper investigation, not to be hazardous to property or to
endanger any person. Applications for permits shall be made in writing
at least ten (10) days in advance of the day of the display. After
such privilege shall be granted, possession, use and distribution
of fireworks or such display shall be lawful for that purpose only.
No permit granted hereunder shall be transferable.
D. The holder of a permit as provided in Subsection
(C) shall furnish a bond or certificate of insurance in the amount deemed adequate by the Board of Aldermen for the payment of all damages which may be caused whether to persons or to property by reasons of the permitted display and arising from any acts of the permittee, his/her agents, employees or subcontractors.