[R.O. 1994 §210.300; Ord. No. 125 §1, 5-14-1990]
All persons participating in trick-or-treat activities or who
wear a mask or cover their faces by any other method that disguises
their identity, while in the City of Jonesburg, Missouri, shall terminate
such activities by 10:00 P.M. on Halloween Day, October 31, of each
year.
[R.O. 1994 §210.310; Ord. No. 125 §2, 5-14-1990]
All persons operating motor vehicles in the City of Jonesburg,
Missouri, on Halloween Day shall operate such motor vehicles at a
slow rate of speed and exercise the highest degree of care, taking
into special consideration the fact that small children, whose faces
and vision are obscured by masks, may be using the street and that
children may be clothed in costumes poorly visible to motor vehicle
operators.
[R.O. 1994 §210.320; Ord. No. 125 §3, 5-14-1990]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation
knowingly to possess any egg, rock, firecracker, bottle rocket, missile,
paint, paraffin, wax, aerosol can containing paint, shaving cream
or a soap solution, or any other similar article readily capable of
or adaptable to being used as a thrown projectile or explosive or
as a means of writing or marking upon or defacing property within
the City of Jonesburg between the hours of 3:00 P.M. of Halloween
and 6:00 A.M. on the following day, except within the confines of
a person's own residence, and except as follows:
1.
Eggs may be possessed and/or used as a food item within restaurants
and other places that commonly purvey prepared foods, provided that
any person so in possession is the owner or proprietor of such premises
or is the lawful agent of such person.
2.
Any of the above named or described articles may be possessed
and held for resale within the confines of any retail store that normally
sells such items, if not otherwise prohibited by law.
3.
Any of the above named or described articles may be possessed
by a producer or wholesaler thereof solely within the confines of
the premises of the producer or wholesaler or retailer.
4.
For the purposes of this Section, it shall be a rebuttable presumption
that any such prohibited article found within a motor vehicle is in
the possession of all occupants thereof, unless any such person establishes
by a preponderance of the evidence that he/she had no knowledge of
the presence of such articles within the motor vehicle.
[R.O. 1994 §210.330; Ord. No. 125 §4, 5-14-1990]
It shall be lawful for any Law Enforcement Officer to confiscate and destroy, or retain for evidence, at such officer's discretion, any such prohibited article found in the possession of any person in violation of Section 210.2190 hereof.
[R.O. 1994 §210.340; Ord. No. 125 §5, 5-14-1990]
It shall be unlawful at any time for any person to throw, hurl,
drop, or smash any article or object of any type at or upon any person,
motor vehicle, structure, or property of any type within the City
of Jonesburg or to act in concert with any other person doing any
such act, or to encourage, aid, or abet any such act.
[R.O. 1994 §210.350; Ord. No. 125 §6, 5-14-1990]
It shall be unlawful for any person to remain in or upon the
public streets, highways, alleys, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, public
grounds, places or buildings, or vacant lots in the City of Jonesburg
between the hours of 10:00 P.M. of Halloween, October 31, of each
year and 5:00 A.M. of the following day, except for the limited and
legitimate purpose of traveling by the most direct route between a
school, church, social club or other private organization then having
a scheduled activity or program, a private residence at which such
person is or will be an invitee, a licensed business establishment
then legally open for business, or such person's home. Any person
found remaining in or upon any of the restricted places or locations
described above for more than five (5) continuous minutes shall be
presumed to be in violation of this Section; and the burden of injecting
the issue of being engaged in a lawful purpose, as provided herein,
shall rest upon such person.
[R.O. 1994 §210.360; Ord. No. 125 §7, 5-14-1990]
Any person who violates any provision of this Article shall
be guilty of an ordinance violation.
