It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, corporation,
or association to manufacture, possess, cast, throw, or fire any squib,
rocket, cracker, torpedo or grenade or other combustible fireworks
of any kind within the corporate city limits of Richland Hills, Texas.
[Ord. No. 999-04, § 7, 10-12-2004]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, corporation,
or association to exhibit or have in their possession with the intent
to give away, display, sell or offer for sale within the corporate
limits of Richland Hills, Texas any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo,
grenade, cap, or other combustible fireworks of any kind.
[Ord. No. 999-04, § 7, 10-12-2004]
Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the sale,
storage or use of railroad torpedoes, flares, or other signaling devices
used by the railroads or to the sale, storage, or use of flashlight
composition used by photographers or dealers in photographic supplies
or to prevent any public or private demonstration, display or theatrical
effects of fireworks of any kind if such fireworks or pyrotechnics
is conducted under the proper supervision of the fire department after
application has been made and a permit issued by the fire marshal
for such demonstration or display. Said permit shall not be granted
unless such demonstration or display has met all recognized safety
requirements outlined by the fire marshal and upon inspection for
property and life safety provisions.
[Ord. No. 999-04, § 7, 10-12-2004]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or operate any truck
or other vehicle that is designed and used for the transporting of
gasoline, diesel, explosives or other flammable or combustible products
on residential streets of the city, except when making actual deliveries
of such products to permanent storage containers properly permitted
to store and receive such product.
This section is not intended to prohibit the use of automobiles
and pick-up trucks while making actual deliveries of gasoline or diesel
fuel to vehicles, lawn mowers, tools or other machinery in the city,
provided that such delivery be in approved containers of metal or
unbreakable plastic designed not to hold more than 20 gallons of the
flammable or combustible liquid.
[Ord. No. 999-04, § 7, 10-12-2004]
(a)
Mobile
service unit defined.
A mobile service unit as defined
in this section shall mean and include any vehicle, tank, tank truck,
or other portable or moveable device from which flammable or combustible
liquid being used as automobile fuel may as an act of retail sale
be dispensed from and into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle.
(b)
Intent.
It is the intent of this section to prohibit mobile gasoline
filling stations which either park or roam around the community and
from which the driver or attendant makes the sale of gasoline or diesel
fuel to persons, firms or corporations whose vehicles are parked or
standing on public or private lots or on public or private streets.
(c)
Exception.
This section shall not apply to the delivery of liquefied petroleum
gas (LPG) to lawful recipients having proper containers, other than
motor vehicles, or to the emergency delivery of motor fuel to a stalled
vehicle.
(d)
Mobile
services units prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to sell or dispense fuel from a mobile
service unit in the city, or to operate the same as a service station,
including self-service.
[Ord. No. 999-04, § 7, 10-12-2004]
