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City of Manchester, MO
St. Louis County
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New Laws (16) Index
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. 
No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, use, discharge or explode any fireworks, blank cartridge, toy pistol, cannon or device in which explosives are used, firecrackers, torpedoes, Roman candles, aerial salutes, pyrotechnic display devices or bombs.
B. 
This Section shall not prohibit:
1. 
The sale or use of the articles mentioned above by persons holding a permit;
2. 
The sale or use of sparklers or colored flares; or
3. 
The sale of blank cartridges for theatrical purposes or signal purposes in sport events or aerial bombs for meetings, or such articles for use of the militia, Police or army.
C. 
This Section shall not prohibit the sale by any wholesaler, dealer or jobber within the City at wholesale if the fireworks are shipped and delivered directly to consignees outside the limits of the City.
D. 
The Board may issue permits to civic or public organizations, fair associations or officials in charge of public parks for pyrotechnical displays on application stating the time and place of the display when the Board is satisfied that the public safety will not be endangered by the display.
A. 
Except as otherwise provided in this Section, no person over the age of twenty-one (21) operating a moving motor vehicle on roads exclusively within the jurisdiction of the City of Manchester, Missouri, by means of a hand-held electronic wireless communication device, shall send, read or write a text message or electronic message.
B. 
The provisions of Subsection (A) of this Section shall not apply to a person operating:
1. 
An authorized emergency vehicle; or
2. 
A moving motor vehicle while using a hand-held electronic wireless communications device to:
a. 
Report illegal activity;
b. 
Summon medical or other emergency help;
c. 
Relay information between a transit or for-hire operator and that operator's dispatcher, in which the device is permanently affixed to the vehicle.
C. 
Nothing in this Section shall be construed or interpreted as prohibiting a person from making or taking part in a telephone call, by means of a hand-held electronic wireless communications device, while operating a motor vehicle on roads exclusively within the jurisdiction of the City.
D. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ELECTRONIC MESSAGE
A self-contained piece of digital communication that is designed or intended to be transmitted between hand-held electronic wireless communication devices. Electronic message includes, but is not limited to, electronic mail, a text message, an instant message, or a command or request to access an Internet site.
HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE
Includes any hand-held cellular phone, Palm Pilot, Blackberry®, or other mobile electronic device used to communicate verbally or by text or electronic messaging, but shall not apply to any device that is permanently embedded into the architecture and design of the motor vehicle.
MAKING OR TAKING PART IN A TELEPHONE CALL
Listening to or engaging in verbal communication through a hand-held electronic wireless communication device.
SEND, READ OR WRITE A TEXT MESSAGE OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGE
Using a hand-held electronic wireless telecommunications device to manually communicate with any person by using an electronic message. Sending, reading or writing a text message or electronic message does not include reading, selecting or entering a phone number or name into a hand-held electronic wireless communications device for the purpose of making a telephone call.
E. 
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to:
1. 
The operator of a vehicle that is lawfully parked or stopped;
2. 
The use of factory-installed or aftermarket global positioning systems (GPS) or wireless communications devices used to transmit or receive data as a part of a digital dispatch system;
3. 
The use of voice-operated technology; or
4. 
The use of two-way radio transmitters or receivers by a licensee of the Federal Communications Commission in the Amateur Radio Service.
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.