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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE SECTION 210.590 RELATED TO
FIREWORKS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN FOR THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE,
MISSOURI,as follows:
SECTION 1—ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT. Section 210.590 of the City Code of the City of
Riverside, Missouri is hereby amended to read as follows (text to be added is underlined; text to be
repealed contains a stFike*magh):
Section 210.590 Fireworks.
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 (31 st) 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.
SECTION 2 — EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after the date of its passage and approval.
BE IT REMBERED that the above was read two times by heading only, PASSED AND
APPROVED by a majority of the Board of Aldermen and APPROVED by the Mayor of the City
of Riverside this�3jg'day of 2018.
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ayor Kathleen L.Rose
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