HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-01-03 Fireworks OrdinanceAN Ol0)INANCL PROHIRITT:vG THE SALE AND DISCIIARGE OF
Flid,WORKS, TORPEDOES, ROCXETS, ETC., ItITHIN THE CITY
Or STF.PHEVVILLF, REPEALING ALL OIiDINANCEb IN CONFLICT
TilFPEWI.TH, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
RE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF Ti1E CITY Oh' STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS:
Section 1. No person, firm, company, corporation or associ-
ation shall cast, throw or fire any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo,
grenade, gun, revolver, pistol, cap or cartridge, or other combustible
fireworks of any kind in the City of Stephenville.
Section 2 No person, firm, company, corporation or Associ-
ation shall exhibit or have in his possession, with intent to give away
or sell or offer for sale or sell within the City of Stephenville, any
squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo, grenade, 4un, revolver, pistol, cap or
cartridge, or other combustible fireworks of any kind in the City of
Stephenville, provided, !lowever, that this section shall not apply to
the sale of any such article or articles by wholesalers to each other
or to the sale of any such article or articles at wholesale to merchants
conducting business entirely without the City of Stephenville, or to the
sale by wholesalers for private or public demonstration as hereinafter
provided.
Section 3. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to
apply to the sale, storage or use of railroad track torpedoes, or other
signalling devices used by railroads, nor to the sale, storage or use
of flashli2;ht composition by photographers or dealers in photographic
supplies or prevent any public or private demonstration or display of
fireworks of any kind if conducted under proper- police supervision after
e application madand permit issued by the city council of the City of
Stephenville for such demonstration. Such permit shall not be granted
unless such demonstration or display shall be of such a character, and
so located, discharged or fired, as in the opinion of the city council,
after proper inspection, shall not be hazardous to property or endanger
any person or persons.
Section -1. any person, firm, corporation, company or associ-
ation who shall violate any of tine provisions of this ordinance, or
suffer or allow tine same to be violated, shall upon conviction thereof
be subject to a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars (;p100.00)
Section 5. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
Section `i. In view of the fact that this ordinance is neces-
sary for the immediate protection and preservation of.' the public health,
safety and general welfare, :it becomes necessary that this ordinance
shall be in full Corte and effect immediately from and after its passage
and publication and it is accordi.n�ly so ordained.
Passed and approved this 3 �. day of 1956.7
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Mayor
ATTEST:
City Secretary —
CERTIFICA'TE OF PLBLIC
I do hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordi nce was
duly- published in the Stephenville Daily Empire in the Issue of
19 52
WITNESS MY HAND li' FOUL THEUNDERSIGNED AUTHORITY, this the /
d ay of
SWORN TO AND SITSCRIBED before me this the _zqz— day of
lOi1
Notary Public, Erath County, Texas
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