It shall be unlawful for any person to leave outside of any
building, unattended, any icebox, refrigerator or any other container
designed to be airtight, if such container has a door equipped with
a catch or lock which may not be released from the inside.
(1965 Code, sec. 13-1; 1989 Code,
sec. 11-1; Ordinance adopting 2016 Code)
It shall be unlawful for any person to post or nail on or affix
or attach to any electric utility or telephone pole in the city any
poster, sign, circular, piece of cardboard, or advertising or political
matter of any kind.
(1965 Code, sec. 13-5; 1989 Code,
sec. 11-4)
(a) No
person shall exhibit or have in his or her possession with intent
to give away or sell or offer for sale or sell within the city any
squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo, grenade, cap or cartridge, or other
combustible fireworks of any kind in the city; provided, however,
that this section shall not apply to the sale of any such article
or articles by wholesalers to each other or to the sale of any such
article or articles at wholesale to merchants conducting business
entirely without the city, or to the sale by wholesalers for private
or public demonstrations as hereinafter provided.
(b) Nothing
in this section shall be constructed to apply to the sale, storage
or use of railroad track torpedoes or other signaling devices used
in railroads, nor to the sale, storage, or use of flashlight composition
by photographers or dealers in photographic supplies, or prevent any
public or private demonstration or display of fireworks of any kind
if conducted under proper police supervision after application is
made and a permit issued by the city council for such demonstration.
Such permit shall not be granted unless such demonstration or display
shall be of such character, and so located, discharged or fired, as
in the opinion of the city council, after proper inspection, to not
be hazardous to property or endanger any person or persons.
(1965 Code, sec. 13-4; 1989 Code,
sec. 11-3)
(a) Generally.
It shall be unlawful for any person to:
(1) Engage in trespass or breach of the peace;
(2) Engage in assault, battery, fighting or quarreling;
(3) Use abusive, obscene, profane or insulting language; or
(4) Engage in other disorderly conduct.
(b) Disturbance or disorderly assembly.
It shall be unlawful
for any person to engage in any riot, affray, noise, disturbance or
disorderly assembly in any public or private place in the municipality.
(c) Amusement or practice tending to annoy persons.
It shall
be unlawful for any person to engage in the firing of firecrackers
or guns (including air and pump), the use of a bicycle or similar
conveyance, the use of a firework or similar material, or any other
amusement or practice tending to annoy persons on a street, sidewalk
or any other public or private property.
(d) Noise.
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage
in the ringing of bells, blowing of horns, hawking of goods or any
other noise, practice or performance directed to persons on a street
or sidewalk by an auctioneer or other person for the purpose of business,
amusement or otherwise.
(e) Penalty.
Any person violating this section or any subsection thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person violating provisions of this section or any subsection thereof shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provided in section
1.01.009 of this code.
(Ordinance adopted 4/4/89, secs.
1–5; 1989 Code, sec. 11-5; Ordinance adopting 2016 Code)
Nothing in this article shall be construed as applying to:
(1) Peace
officers and security officers commissioned by the state while in
the performance of their official duties;
(2) Discharge
of guns or pistols for training purposes with the permission of and
at a place approved by the chief of police or his/her designee;
(3) Shooting
in galleries licensed by the city; or
(4) Discharge
of any air rifle or any firearm with the advance written permission
of the chief of police or a designated representative upon finding
that such discharge serves the general health, safety, welfare and
education of the community and that such discharge can occur safely.
(Ordinance adopted 7/2/12; Ordinance adopting 2016 Code)
(a) In
this section, “smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burning,
or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe, weed, plant, any electronic
smoking device, or other combustible substance in any manner or in
any form.
(b) Smoking
is prohibited within 30 feet 0" of any entrance of any building or
facility owned, leased, or operated by the city.
(Ordinance adopted 2/4/19)