A.
A person
commits the offense of peace disturbance if:
1.
He/she unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person
or persons by:
a.
Loud noise;
b.
Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific
individual and uttered under circumstances which are likely to produce
an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient;
c.
Threatening to commit a felonious act against any person under circumstances
which are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear that such threat
may be carried out;
d.
Fighting; or
e.
Creating a noxious and offensive odor.
For the purposes of Sections 215.210 and 215.220, the following words shall have the meanings set out herein:
Any place which at the time is not open to the public. It
includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
Any property in which the actor does not have a possessory
interest.
Any place which at the time is open to the public. It includes
property which is owned publicly or privately.
If a building or structure is divided into separately occupied
units, such units are separate premises.
A.
A person
commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons if he/she knowingly:
1.
Carries concealed upon or about his/her person a knife, a firearm,
a blackjack or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use;
2.
Discharges or shoots a firearm within the City limits;
3.
Possesses a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated;
4.
Carries a firearm or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use;
or
5.
Carries a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any other weapon
readily capable of lethal use into any school, onto any school bus,
or onto the premises of any function or activity sponsored or sanctioned
by school officials or the district school board.
B.
Subparagraphs (1), (2), (4) and (5) of Subsection (A) of this Section shall not apply to or affect any of the following:
1.
All State, County and municipal Law Enforcement Officers possessing
the duty and power of arrest for violation of the general criminal
laws of the State or for violation of ordinances of Counties or municipalities
of the State, or any person summoned by such officers to assist in
making arrests or preserving the peace while actually engaged in assisting
such officer;
2.
Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries,
jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused
or convicted of crime;
3.
Members of the Armed Forces or National Guard while performing their
official duty;
4.
Those persons vested by Article V, Section 1 of the Constitution of Missouri with the judicial power of the State and those persons vested by Article III of the Constitution of the United States with the judicial power of the United States, the members of the Federal judiciary;
5.
Any person whose bona fide duty is to execute process, civil or criminal;
6.
Any Federal Probation Officer;
7.
Any State Probation or Parole Officer, including supervisors and
members of the Board of Probation and Parole;
8.
Any corporate security advisor meeting the definition and fulfilling
the requirements of the regulations established by the Board of Police
Commissioners under Section 84.340, RSMo.; and
9.
The discharge of firearms in connection with any turkey shoots or
other charitable event authorized by the Board of Aldermen.
C.
Subparagraphs (1), (3), (4) and (5) of Subsection (A) of this Section do not apply when the actor is transporting such weapons in a non-functioning state or in an unloaded state when ammunition is not readily accessible or when such weapons are not readily accessible. Subparagraph (1) of Subsection (A) of this Section does not apply when the actor is also in possession of an exposed firearm or projectile weapon for the lawful pursuit of game, or is in his/her dwelling unit or upon business premises over which the actor has possession, authority or control, or is traveling in a continuous journey peaceably through the City. Subparagraph (5) of Subsection (A) of this Section does not apply if the firearm is otherwise lawfully possessed by a person while traversing school premises for the purposes of transporting a student to or from school, or possessed by an adult for the purposes of facilitation of a school-sanctioned firearm-related event.
D.
Nothing
in this Section shall make it unlawful for a student to actually participate
in school-sanctioned gun safety courses, student military or ROTC
courses, or other school-sponsored firearm-related events, provided
the student does not carry a firearm or other weapon readily capable
of lethal use into any school, onto any school bus, or onto the premises
of any function or activity sponsored or sanctioned by school officials
or the district school board.
[1]
Note—Under certain circumstances this offense can be
a felony under state law.
[Ord. No. 569-C §§1—3, 5-17-2004]
A.
No
person who has been issued a concealed carry endorsement by the Missouri
Director of Revenue under Sections 571.101 to 571.121, RSMo., or who
has been issued a valid permit or endorsement to carry concealed firearms
issued by another State or political subdivision of another State,
shall, by authority of that endorsement or permit, be allowed to carry
a concealed firearm or to openly carry a firearm in any building or
portion of a building owned, leased or controlled by the City of Canton,
Missouri.
B.
Notification. Signs shall be posted at each entrance of
a building entirely owned, leased or controlled by the City of Canton,
stating that carrying of firearms is prohibited. Where the City of
Canton owns, leases or controls only a portion of a building, signs
shall be posted at each entrance to that portion of the building stating
that carrying of firearms is prohibited.
C.
Denial Of Entrance. Any person violating this Section may
be denied entrance to any City building or ordered to leave said building.
Any City employee, other than Police Officers, violating this Section
may be disciplined. No other penalties shall be imposed for a violation
of this Section.
A.
A person
commits the offense of unlawful transfer of weapons if he/she:
1.
Knowingly sells, leases, loans, gives away or delivers a blackjack
to a person less than eighteen (18) years old without the consent
of the child's custodial parent or guardian, or recklessly, as defined
in Section 562.016, RSMo., sells, leases, loans, gives away or delivers
any firearm to a person less than eighteen (18) years old without
the consent of the child's custodial parent or guardian; provided
that this does not prohibit the delivery of such weapons to any Peace
Officer or member of the Armed Forces or National Guard while performing
his/her official duty; or
2.
Recklessly, as defined in Section 562.016, RSMo., sells, leases,
loans, gives away or delivers a firearm or ammunition for a firearm
to a person who is intoxicated.
[Ord. No. 639-C §1, 11-17-2008]
Any person within the limits of this City who shall discharge
any BB gun, spring gun or air gun or shall shoot any pebble, bullet,
slug, arrow or other hard substance by means of a sling, crossbow,
rubber band or bow or any other means shall be deemed guilty of an
ordinance violation, except that bow and arrow hunting for deer only
will be permitted during specific days and times to be determined
jointly by the State of Missouri Department of Conservation and the
City of Canton, Missouri. All bow hunters must comply with State laws
regarding bow and arrow hunting for deer and must comply with any
specific regulations concerning the special hunt of deer within the
City limits as shall be at anytime promulgated by the Board of Aldermen
of the City of Canton, Missouri.
[CC 1985 §75.600; Ord. No. 292-C §1, 10-27-1986]
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any missile
in the City of Canton from any air rifle, pellet gun, bow, crossbow,
blow gun, slingshot, paintball gun or other contrivance or apparatus
capable of discharging any missile which might or could cause injury
to person or property owned or occupied by the person discharging
the missile.
A person commits the offense of unlawful assembly if he/she
knowingly assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees
with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State
or of the United States with force or violence.
A person commits the offense of rioting if he/she knowingly
assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees with such
persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State or of the
United States with force or violence, and thereafter, while still
so assembled, does violate any of said laws with force or violence.
[1]
Note—Under certain circumstances this offense can be
a felony under state law.
A person commits the offense of refusal to disperse if, being
present at the scene of an unlawful assembly or at the scene of a
riot, he/she knowingly fails or refuses to obey the lawful command
of a Law Enforcement Officer to depart from the scene of such unlawful
assembly or riot.
[CC 1985 §75.200; Ord. No. 366-C §§1—3, 1-21-1992]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person owning or having care or custody
of any dog or dogs to keep or harbor any dog or dogs which frequently
or continually bark or cry so as to disturb the peace, comfort or
repose of any person or persons.
B.
If
the barking or cry of any dog or dogs can be distinctly heard at a
distance of one hundred (100) feet or more from its source, it shall
create a rebuttable presumption that barking noise is excessive. Persons
complaining of the barking noise need not reside or be located beyond
one hundred (100) feet from its source.
C.
No
person shall be prosecuted for a violation of keeping of barking dogs
unless and until a complaint conforming to the requirements of Section
37.33 of the Missouri Rules of Court, duly executed by a complaining
party or parties, has been filed with the City of Canton, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 664-C §§1—4, 1-19-2010]
A.
INCITE A RIOT
PUBLIC PLACE
RIOT
1.
2.
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following definitions
shall apply:
Urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not
be deemed to mean the mere oral or written advocacy of ideas or expression
of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or
assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such acts.
Any place to which the general public has access and a right
to resort for business, entertainment or other lawful purposes, but
does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the uses of the
public. A public place shall include the front or immediate area of
any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and
also public grounds, areas or parks.
A public disturbance involving:
An act or acts of violence by one (1) or more persons part of
an assemblage of three (3) or more persons, which act or acts shall
constitute a clear and a present danger of, or shall result in, damage
or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of
any other individual.
A threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence
by one (1) or more persons part of an assemblage of three (3) or more
persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate
execution of such threat or threats where the performance of the threatened
act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger
of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of another
person or to the person of another individual.
B.
Disorderly Conduct Prohibited. A person shall be guilty
of disorderly conduct if, with the purpose of causing public danger,
alarm, disorder, nuisance or if his/her conduct is likely to cause
public danger, alarm, disorder or nuisance, he/she willfully does
any of the following acts in a public place:
1.
Commits an act in a violent and tumultuous manner toward another
whereby that other is placed in danger of his/her life, injury to
his/her limb or health.
2.
Commits an act in a violent and tumultuous manner towards another
whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed
or damaged.
3.
Causes, provokes or engages in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct
so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another.
4.
Interferes with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation by acts
of violence or threats of violence.
5.
Obstructs, either singly or together with other persons, the flow
of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public
way when ordered to do so by a member of the Police Department of
the City of Canton, Missouri, or other lawful authority reasonably
known to be a lawful authority.
6.
A person is in a place under the influence of intoxicating liquor
or drug in such condition as to be unable to exercise care for his/her
own safety or the safety of others.
7.
Resists or obstructs the performance of duties by City of Canton
Police Department personnel, Fire District personnel, Ambulance District
personnel or any other authorized official of the City, County or
State when reasonably known to be such an official.
8.
Incites, attempts to incite or is involved in attempting to incite
a riot.
9.
Addresses abusive language or threats to any member of the Police
Department of the City of Canton, Missouri, Fire District personnel,
Ambulance District personnel, County Sheriff's Department officers
or any other official of the City, County or State who is engaged
in lawful performance of his/her duties or any other person when such
words have a tendency to cause acts of violence. Words merely causing
displeasure, annoyance or resentment are not prohibited.
10.
Damages, befouls or disturbs public property or the property of another
so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy or physically offensive condition.
11.
Makes or causes to be made any loud, boisterous and unreasonable
noise or disturbance to the annoyance of any other person nearby or
near any public highway, road, street, lane, alley, park, square or
common whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed or the traveling
public is annoyed.
12.
Fails to obey a lawful order by a Law Enforcement Officer of the
City, County or State when reasonably known to be such an official
where one (1) or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct
in the immediate vicinity and the public health and safety is imminently
threatened.
13.
Uses abusive or obscene language or makes obscene gestures.
C.
Exemptions. Nothing in this Section shall be constructed
to suppress the right to lawful assembly, picketing, public speaking
or other lawful means of expressing public opinion not in contravention
of other laws.
[Ord. No. 720-C §§1—5, 10-21-2013]
A.
Excessive Force Prohibited. It shall be unlawful
for any police officer employed by the City of Canton, Missouri, to
use excessive force against any individual engaged in a non-violent
civil rights demonstration.
B.
Barriers To Entry Or Exit To Public Facilities Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to physically bar entry to or
exit from any public facility or place in the City of Canton, Missouri.
C.
Citation To Be Given. Any person charged with violating
the terms of this Section shall be lawfully served with either a Uniform
Citation or Prosecutor's Information informing the person of
the alleged violation.
D.
Penalties. Any person convicted of violating the
terms of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
fined by an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each
violation. Each day on which such violation occurs shall be deemed
to be a separate offense.
E.
Restitution. Any person convicted of violating the
provisions of this Section shall be liable to the City of Canton for
any expenses, loss or damage occasioned by the City by reason of such
violation.
