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.
C. 
The defendant shall have the burden of injecting the issue under Subsection (B) of this Section.
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:
1. 
Into any well, spring, brook, branch, creek, pond, or lake; or
2. 
On any public road or highway, river, stream, or watercourse or upon premises not his or her own for the purpose of annoying another or others.
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.
No person shall corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake.
A. 
No person shall do any blasting or use any explosives without first obtaining and having in force a permit authorizing blasting from the Board of Aldermen.
B. 
All such applications for permit shall describe the location where such blasting is proposed to be done and the name of the applicant, together with such additional information as may be required by the Board of Aldermen.
C. 
Such permit may be issued with specific conditions as to the period for which said permit shall be effective; the hours of the day when blasting operations may be conducted; the distance required from populated areas and other measures for the protection of the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the City.
D. 
All applicants may be required to furnish public liability and property damage insurance covering such blasting operations in an amount of not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) combined single limit, and all such insurance policies may be required to contain a provision requiring notification to the Board of Aldermen of the City of Riverside, prior to cancellation of such insurance.
E. 
Such permit may be issued subject to cancellation by the Board of Aldermen at any time if any of the conditions of the permit are violated by the permittee, or any insurance policy is canceled, or if any false or misleading information is given relative to the nature, extent or methods of blasting.
F. 
A permit shall be required for each location where blasting operations are proposed.
It shall be unlawful for any owner or lessee of any real property in the City of Riverside, Missouri, to maintain a gas meter in or adjacent to a commercial parking area, unless the meter is provided with adequate protection from vehicular traffic.
No person, firm or corporation shall keep, maintain or have upon his/her premises any open wells or cisterns.
[Ord. No. 1520 § 1, 3-7-2017; Ord. No. 1604, 7-3-2018]
A. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following words shall have the meanings set out below:
CITY
The City of Riverside, Missouri.
FIREWORKS
Explosive devices designed primarily to produce visible or audible effects by combustion and includes aerial devices and ground devices, all of which are classified as fireworks, UN0336 within 49 CFR Part 172.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or discharge any "bottle rockets," as defined in Section 605.320(A), within any part of the City.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to use, ignite or discharge any fireworks within any of the following areas in the City:
1. 
Within six hundred (600) feet of any church, hospital, medical facility, asylum, public school, library or day care facility; or
2. 
Within three hundred (300) feet of a permanent structure where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale; or
3. 
On any public or private property without the permission of the owner or other person having control of such property; or
4. 
Within or throw the same from a motor vehicle, or place or throw the same into or at a motor vehicle, or at or near any person or group of people; or
5. 
Within three hundred (300) feet of any gasoline pump, gasoline filling station or any non-permanent structure where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale; or within three hundred (300) feet of any structure which is marked according to the National Fire Protection Association's Hazardous Material Identification System as "flammable" or "water reactive."
D. 
Nothing in Subsection (C) shall be construed to prevent persons with licenses issued pursuant to Section 605.320 from demonstrating or testing fireworks provided that any such demonstration or test shall require the notification and the written approval of the Fire Marshall.
E. 
Fireworks may only be used, ignited and/or discharged at the following times:
1. 
From 10:00 P.M. on December thirty-first (31st) until 1:00 A.M. on January first (1st); and
2. 
From 10:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. each day during the period of June twenty-sixth (26th) to July second (2nd) and on July fifth (5th); and
3. 
From 10:00 A.M.to 12:00 A.M. (Midnight) each day on July third (3rd) and July fourth (4th).
F. 
Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and such imprisonment. Each instance of unlawful use or discharge shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.