HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Prohibiting Sale and Use of Fireworks or other Pyrotechnic Display ORDINANCE N0. 439
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE SALE AND USE OF FIREWORKS OR OTHER PYROTECHNIC
DISPLAY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA:
Section 1. The discharge, firing or use of firecrackers, rockets, tor—
pedoes, roman candles or other fireworks designed and intended for pyrotechnic
display and of pistols, canes, cannons or other appliances using blank cart—
ridges or caps containing chlora.te of potash mixtures, is hereby prohibited
upon any public park, place, street, avenue or alley, or within the fire limits
district of the City of Ames, Iowa. Provided that the Mayor or Council may,
upon suitable application, issue a permit to a properly qualified person or
organization for giving a pyrotechnic display of fireworks in the public parks
or other open places. Such display shall be of such a character and so located,
discharged or fired as, in the opinion of the Chief of the Fire Department,
shall not be hazardous to surrounding property or endanger any person or person$
Section 2. The sale of fireworks at retail is prohibited. The May or or
Chief of the Fire Department is given authority to remove or have removed at
the owners expense, all stocks of fireworks exposed for sale or held in stock
in violation of this ordinance.
Section 3. Anyone violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall,
upon conviction, be imprisoned it jail not to exceed thirty days, or fined not
to exceed one Hundred ($100.00) Dollars.
Section 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
ATTEST: MAYOR
CITY CLERK-
I, A. B. Maxwell, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, hereby certify
that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 435 was duly and properly passed
by the City Council at a meeting held Monday, November 16, 1931, and published
in the Ames Daily Tribune, November __, 1931.
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