A person commits the offense of littering
if he or she places, deposits, or causes to be placed or deposited,
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 the City, or on any private
real property owned by another without the owner's consent.
[R.O. 2009 § 205.200; R.O. 2006
§ 220.010; Ord. No. 1226 § 1, 4-17-1989; Ord. No. 2500 § 1, 8-19-2002]
A. The term "fireworks," as used in this Section,
means any combustible or explosive composition or any substance or
combination of substances or articles prepared for the purpose of
producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration
or detonation and includes but is not limited to: blank cartridges;
toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes or toy guns in which explosives
are used; balloons which require fire underneath to propel them; fire
crackers; torpedoes; sky rockets; Roman candles; bombs; colored flares;
cylindrical fountains; colored cone fire; box fire and torches; wheels;
magic snakes; cone fountains; colored mines and shells; aerial bombs;
missiles and other devices, articles or tablets containing any explosives
or flammable compound. The term "fireworks," however, shall not include
toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other devices in which paper caps
are used containing not in excess of an average of twenty-five hundredths
(0.25) of a grain of explosive compound per cap.
B. No person, firm or corporation shall possess,
use, discharge or explode within the City of Fenton fireworks of any
kind whatsoever. Nothing contained in this Section shall prohibit
the sale, possession and use of blank cartridges for theatrical purposes
or signal purposes in athletic contests or sporting events or by Police
or military organizations.
C. Nothing contained in this Section shall
prohibit any resident, wholesaler, dealer or jobber from selling fireworks
at wholesale, provided the same are delivered or shipped directly
outside the corporate limits of the City.
D. Nothing contained in this Section shall
prohibit the use of "consumer fireworks" and/or "display fireworks,"
as defined in Section 320.106, RSMo., for public displays given by
any organization or amusement park, provided they have first obtained
a permit from the Fenton Fire Protection District or other applicable
entity for giving such public display of "consumer fireworks" and/or
"display fireworks."
[R.O. 2009 § 205.203; R.O. 2006
§ 615.010; Ord. No. 1135 § 1, 9-19-1988]
It shall be unlawful for any person
to sell fireworks within the City.
[Ord. No. 4339, 6-22-2023]
A. A person commits the offense of miscellaneous health and safety if he/she does or causes any action that endangers or potentially dangers the health and safety of another person. A person who violates this provision is subject to the penalties pursuant to Section
100.120 of this Code.
B. For
the purposes of this Section, the following words shall have the following
meanings:
HEALTH
A person's mental or physical condition and the state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
SAFETY
The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause
danger, risk, or injury.