The ungoverned release of helium-filled balloons into the air poses substantial environmental risks, including most particularly risks to wildlife, as well as to the health, safety and welfare of persons and property.
The release of balloons inflated with lighter-than air gases pose a danger and nuisance to the environment, particularly to wildlife and marine animals so as to constitute a public nuisance, and may pose a threat to the safety of its inhabitants and their property.
The City Council of the City of Cape May believes it in the best interests of the City, its residents, its visitors, the surrounding area, and the environment as a whole to prohibit, except in limited circumstances, the release into the environment of balloons filled with helium and other lighter-than-air gases.