HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975-26 - Regulations of the Storage, Maintenance, and Sale of Tear GasBILL NO.~_a
ORDINANCE NO.~~J-~ C~
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE STORAGE, MAINTENANCE AND SALE OF TEAR GAS, TEAR GAS
SUBSTITUTES AND TEAR GAS WITH VARIOUS ADDITIVES WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY
OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI,
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. It is deemed to be for the best interests of citizens of the City
of Riverside and for the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare that
the keeping and sale of tear gas, tear gas substitutes and tear gas with various addi-
tives be regulated within the City limits of the City of Riverside, Missouri.
Section 2. The word "person" whenever used in this ordinance shall include
any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, trustee, receiver or any
other group or combination of individuals acting as a unit either severally or jointly.
Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep in storage, to keep or
maintain for sale any tear gas or tear gas substitute or tear gas with additives within the
City limits of the City of Riverside, Missouri, unless the tear gas, tear gas substitute
or tear gas with additives
a, is locked in a wired or screened-in compartment, said compartment
being at least five (5) feet from the entranceways or exits of the
building wherein the tear gas, tear gas substitute or tear gas with
additives is being keft, maintained or stored, and
b. is stored within the said locked compartments in wooden crates
with an individual storage unit for each cannister, bottle or
container of tear gas, tear gas substitute or tear gas with additives.
Section 4. It shall be unl ful for any person to sell tear gas, tear gas
substitute or tear gas with additives within the city limits of the City of
Riverside, Missouri, unless
a. The person selling the tear gas, tear gas substitute or tear gas
with additives obtains the name and address of the person purchasing
the said products and
b. the person selling the tear gas, tear gas substitute, or tear gas
with additives submits a list of purchasers to the Riverside Chief of
Police on the last day of each month and
c. the person selling the tear gas, tear gas substitute or tear gas with
additives submits to the Chief of Police of the City of Riverside, an itemized
list of the inventory of tear gas, tear gas substitutes, or tear gas with
additives held by the said seller on the last day of each month and said
list furnished to the Chief of Police on the last day of each month.
Section 5. No tear gas, tear as substitutes and tear gas with various additives
shall be sold to any person under the age of 21 years of age.
Section 6. Any person violating the terms and provisions of this ordinance
shall have thirty (30) days from the effective date of said ordinance to cease
said violation to conform to the provisions of this ordinance.
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Section 7. Any person violating the terms andprovisions of this ordinance
\ - thirty (30) days after the effective date thereof shall be fined an amount not
exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned for a time not exceeding
three (3) months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
PASSED THIS day of 1975.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
APPROVED THIS ~ DAY OF , 1975.
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MAYOR
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