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.
A.
It
is unlawful to manufacture, store, display, sell or discharge fireworks
in the City, except within the performance of a licensed public exhibition,
under permit granted by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, conditioned
upon a bond, deemed by them adequate to indemnify all damages which
may be reasonably anticipated due to the contemplated display. Application
for such a permit shall be made in writing at least twenty-one (21)
days before the proposed exhibition. Any subsequently permitted, storage
and discharge of fireworks for public exhibition shall be under the
supervision of the Fire Chief, whose paramount consideration shall
be that such fireworks are discharged in a manner so as to not endanger
person or property.
B.
The
term "fireworks" includes explosive devices designed
primarily to produce visible or audible effects by combustion, deflagration,
or detonation. This term includes aerial devices containing no more
than two (2) grains (130 mg) of explosive composition or ground devices
containing no more than 50 mg of explosive composition, all of which
are classified as class C explosives by regulation of the United States
Department of Transportation. This term also includes explosive devices
designed primarily to produce visible or audible effects by combustion,
deflagration or detonation. This term includes devices containing
more than two grains (130 mg) of explosive composition intended for
public display. These devices are classified as class B explosives
by regulation of the United States Department of Transportation.
C.
Any
person who causes or allows the provisions of this Section to be violated,
shall be guilty of an ordinance violation, who, upon the conviction
of which, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five
dollars ($25.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). Additionally,
all stocks of fireworks exposed for display or sale, stored or which
are within the proximity of fireworks discharged in violation of this
Section, are hereby declared contraband, subject to seizure and destruction,
at the expense of the possessor.
A.
No
person shall smoke in City Hall. The total interior areas of the City
Hall building shall be designated as "Non-Smoking" areas.
B.
Posting
of "No Smoking" signs on or near the entrance doors
shall constitute sufficient notice for the enforcement of this Section.
C.
Violation
of this Section, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not
more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or by incarceration for a
term of not longer than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and
incarceration.
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to misuse the emergency telephone
service. For the purposes of this Section, "emergency" means any incident involving danger to life or property that calls
for an emergency response dispatch of Police, Fire, EMS or other public
safety organization, "misuse of the emergency telephone service" includes, but is not limited to, repeatedly calling the "911" for non-emergency situations causing operators or
equipment to be in use when emergency situations may need such operators
or equipment and "repeatedly" means three (3) or
more times within a one (1) month period.
B.
Any
violation of this Section is an ordinance violation.
