(A) Abandoned refrigerators. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave outside of any dwelling in a place accessible to children any abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or container having air tight doors.
(B) Fireworks prohibited.
(1) Sale prohibited. Within the city limits, a person shall not sell at retail, offer for sale at retail, expose for sale at retail, keep with intent to sell at retail, give, furnish, transport, use, explode or cause to explode any firecrackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, Roman candles, day glow bombs or other fireworks of like construction containing more than 0.25 of a grain of explosive content per device, nor any fireworks containing an explosive or inflammable compound or a tablet or other device commonly used and sold as fireworks containing nitrates, chlorates, oxalate, sulphides of lead, barium, antimony, arsenic, mercury, nitroglycerine, phosphorous or a compound containing these or other modern explosives.
(2) Discharge, possession. It shall be unlawful for any person to fire, discharge, display or possess any fireworks except of the type and under the conditions permitted by Chapter 38 of the Penal Code of the state (M.C.L.A. §§ 750.243i)
(C) Carrying dangerous weapons. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry on his or her person or in the passenger compartment of any motor vehicle any dangerous weapon, including, but not limited to, segments of chain, hunting knives, jackknives having one or more blades which exceed three inches in length, club, metal pipe or any other dangerous weapon, unless carried in the normal course of a business or profession, excluding firearms.
(D) Discharge of weapons.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any firearm, air rifle, air pistol, bow and arrow, sling shot or wrist rocket within the city, except as otherwise provided in this section.
(2) It shall be permissible for the City Police Department, and all full time and part time officers who are employees of the Police Department, to discharge firearms at a shooting range owned by the city. No individuals, other than police officers, shall be permitted to utilize the shooting range.
(E) Throwing objects from vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person to wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or object from any moving automobile.
(F) Throwing objects toward vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person to wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or object toward any person or automobile.
(G) Spectator conduct. It shall be unlawful for any person, while a spectator in a sport stadium, to pass or assist in passing any person, with or without that person’s consent above spectators in the stadium.
(H) False report. It shall be unlawful for any person to make a false report, by telephone or otherwise, to any public official which may be reasonably expected to cause the evacuation or closing of a building or place open to the public, or to summon, as a joke or prank or otherwise without any good reason therefore, by telephone or otherwise, the Police or the Fire Department or any public or private ambulance to go to any address where the service called for is not needed.
(Ord. 142, passed 9-20-1993; Ord. 182, § 2, passed 2-13-2012; Ord. 197, passed 6-10-2013)
Penalty, see § 133.99
Statutory reference:
Dangerous weapons, see M.C.L.A. §§ 750.224 et seq.
Similar provisions, see M.C.L.A. § 750.493d