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City of Oronogo, MO
Jasper County
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Any person who shall willfully disturb any assembly or persons congregated for a lawful purpose shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
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When Permit Required For Sound-Producing Instruments With Sound-Intensifying Attachments. Any persons who shall use any megaphone, phonograph, graphophone, radio or other sound-producing instruments, with trumpet or other sound-intensifying attachments, opening upon into the streets of the City or placed in position for the purpose of throwing or conveying the sounds thereof into the streets of the City, unless upon permit issued by the Chief of Police, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
B. 
Limitation On Operation Of Automatic Musical Instruments. Any person who shall operate any electric piano or other automatic musical instrument later than 10:30 P.M. or at anytime to the annoyance of the public shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
C. 
Mufflers For Stationary Engines. Any person who shall operate or cause to be operated in the City any stationary gasoline or gas engine not employed in portable uses without having and using therewith an adequate and suitable muffler for such engine to muffler the exhaust noises thereof shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
D. 
Use Of Whistles. It shall be unlawful for the owner, owners, agent, lessee, superintendent, workman or employees in any capacity in any factory, machine shop, foundry or mill of any kind to blow, sound or cause or permit to be blown or sounded to the annoyance of any persons, for any purpose whatever, except giving a fire alarm or storm warning, any whistle within the City. This Section shall not be construed as to prevent the proper use of steam whistles on locomotives within the City. Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
E. 
Construction or repair of any building, including excavation, demolition or alteration, by the use of power tools or equipment, or the operation or permitting the operation of any mechanically, electrically or pneumatic-powered saw, drill, sander, grinder, or similar device used in residential areas so as to disturb the comfort or repose of any persons in the vicinity, other than between the hours of 9:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. on weekdays and Saturday, when noise generated thereby is audible within a distance of two hundred (200) feet, except in the case of urgent necessity and in the interest of public health and safety, shall only be done with a permit from the Chief of Police, which permit may be granted for a period not to exceed three (3) days or less while the emergency continues, which permit may be renewed for periods of three (3) days or less while the emergency continues.
[Ord. No. 20-27, 7-27-2020]
F. 
Mechanical Exhaust Braking Systems. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to use, operate, or cause to be used or operated within the City limits of the City of Oronogo, Missouri, any mechanical exhaust device designed to aid in the braking or deceleration of any vehicle which results in the excessive, loud, unusual, or explosive noise from such vehicle otherwise known as "Jake Braking." Any person convicted of the violation of this Section shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
A. 
Definition. The following term shall be defined as follows:
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the general public has access and a right of resort for business, entertainment or other lawful purpose, but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the uses of the public. It shall also include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and also public grounds, areas or parks.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to stand or remain idle either alone or in consort with others in a public place in such manner so as to:
1. 
Obstruct any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building by hindering or impeding or tending to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic or pedestrians;
2. 
Commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building any act or thing which is an obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing or fronting on any such public street, public highway, public sidewalk, or any other public place or building, all of which prevents the free and uninterrupted ingress, egress and regress, therein, thereon and thereto;
3. 
Obstruct the entrance to any business establishment, without so doing for some lawful purpose, if contrary to the expressed wish of the owner, lessee, managing agent or person in control or charge of the building or premises.
C. 
When any person causes or commits any of the conditions in this Section, a Police Officer or any Law Enforcement Officer shall order that person to stop causing or committing such conditions and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or refuses to obey such orders shall be guilty of a violation of this Section.
Any person who shall play at any game of ball or throw or bat any ball across or upon any street shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
Any person who shall remove, molest, deface, or discharge any flag or other decoration that may be used by any other person in, upon, or about any building in the City to indicate celebration of any holiday or public event, without the consent of the owner thereof, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
No owner, lessee or keeper of any tenement house, lodging house or boarding house or manufacturer shall cause or allow the same to be overcrowd, or cause such house, or portion thereof, to become dangerous or detrimental to health.