A.
A person commits the offense of abandonment
of an airtight or semi-airtight container if he or she knowingly abandons,
discards, or permits to remain on premises under his or her control,
in a place accessible to children, any abandoned or discarded icebox,
refrigerator, or other airtight or semi-airtight container which has
a capacity of one and one-half (1 1/2) cubic feet or more and
an opening of fifty (50) square inches or more and which has a door
or lid equipped with hinge, latch or other fastening device capable
of securing such door or lid, without rendering such equipment harmless
to human life by removing such hinges, latches or other hardware which
may cause a person to be confined therein.
B.
Subsection (A) of this Section does not apply to an icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container located in that part of a building occupied by a dealer, warehouse operator or repair person.
D.
The offense of abandonment of an airtight
or semi-airtight container is an ordinance violation.
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.
A.
A person commits the offense of unlawful
disposition of a dead animal if he or she knowingly places or causes
to be placed the carcass or offal of any dead animal:
A.
A person commits the offense of tampering
with a water supply if he or she purposely:
1.
Poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts
the water of a well, spring, brook or reservoir used for domestic
or municipal purposes; or
2.
Diverts, dams up and holds back from
its natural course and flow any spring, brook or other water supply
for domestic or municipal purposes, after said water supply shall
have once been taken for use by any person or persons, corporation,
town or city for his/her, their or its use.
B.
The offense of tampering with a water supply
is an ordinance violation.
[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."[1]
[1]
Note: See also Section 220.020(A)(8).
[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]
