1. Expectorating. No person shall expectorate on the ground or in any structure within the City limits.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.1)
2. Putting debris on streets and sidewalks. No person shall throw or deposit on any street or sidewalk any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, trash, garbage, rubbish, litter, offal, or any other debris, or any other substance, which the person knows or has reason to know may injure any person, animal or vehicle.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.369)
(ECIA Model Code Amended in 2014)
3. Carrying a concealed weapon. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry under such person's clothes or concealed about their person or to be found in possession of any slingshot, knuckles of metal or other material, air gun or any other weapon other than a knife, unless licensed by the Iowa Department of Public Safety or having in possession a valid permit from the County Sheriff.
(ECIA Model Code Amended in 2014)
4. False alarms. No person shall give or cause to be given any false alarm of a fire, nor set fire to any combustible material, or cry or sound an alarm or by any other means without cause.
5. Stench bombs. No person shall throw, drop, pour, explode, deposit, release, discharge or expose any stench bomb or tear bomb, or any liquid, gaseous or solid substance or matter of any kind that is injurious to persons or property, or that is nauseous, sickening, irritating or offensive to any of the senses in, on or about a theater, restaurant, car, structure, place of business, or amusement, or any place of public assemblage, or attempt to do any of these acts, or prepare or possess such devices or materials with intent to do any of these acts. This provision shall not apply to duly constituted police, military authorities, or peace officers in the discharge of their duties, or to licensed physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other similar persons licensed under the laws of this State; nor to any established place of business or home having tear gas installed as a protection against burglary, robbery or holdup, nor to any bank or other messenger carrying funds or other valuables.
6. Discharging firearms and fireworks.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 727.2)
a. No person, firm, or corporation shall discharge or fire any cannon, gun, rifle, shotgun, revolver, paintball gun, bomb, pistol, air gun, crossbow, bow and arrow, or other firearms or set off or burn firecrackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, roman candles, or other fireworks of like construction or any fireworks containing any explosive or inflammable compound, or other device containing any explosive. This section does not apply to law enforcement officers acting in the course of their duties.
b. The City Council may upon application in writing, grant a permit for the display and use of fireworks by any organization or groups of individuals when such fireworks display will be handled by a competent operator.
c. The City Council may, upon application in writing, grant a permit for the operation of a firing range in which the discharge of firearms for training, recreational or competitive events would be allowed upon showing that the range would be under the direction of a competent organization, group or individual.
d. In the interest of public health and safety and at such times as approved by the Chief of Police, the police or their designee may use firearms to control rodent or animal problems when it is evident that conventional control methods have not resolved the problem.
e. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the use of blank cartridges for a show or the theatre, or for signal purposes in athletic sports or by railroads, or trucks, for signal purposes, or by a recognized military organization and provided further that nothing in this section shall apply to any substance or composition prepared and used for medicinal or fumigation purposes.
f. Throwing and Shooting. It is unlawful for a person to throw, launch or propel stones, bricks or missiles of any kind or to shoot arrows, rubber guns, slingshots, air rifles, BB guns or other dangerous instruments or toys on or into any street, alley, highway, sidewalk, public way, public ground or public building, without written consent of the Cascade City Council.
7. Possession of Fireworks.
a. Definition. The term "fireworks" includes any explosive composition, or combination of explosives, substances or articles prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion or detonation and includes blank cartridges, firecrackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, Roman Candles or other fireworks of like construction and fireworks containing any explosive or flammable compound, or other device containing any explosive substance. The term "fireworks" does not include gold star-producing sparklers on wires that contain no magnesium or chlorate or perchlorate, flitter sparklers in paper tubes that do not exceed 1/8 inch in diameter, toy snakes that contain no mercury, or caps used in cap pistols.
b. Exemption. The use of blank cartridges for a show or the theater, or for signal purposes in athletic events, or by railroads or trucks for signal purposes, or by recognized military organizations is exempt from this Subsection.
c. Prohibition. No person shall possess fireworks except as provided in this Chapter.
(Editor’s Note: Please see Title III, Chapter 17, Fireworks, for Ordinance 4-17, regarding the sale of fireworks).
8. Abandoned refrigerators. No person shall place, or allow to be placed, any discarded, abandoned, unattended or unused refrigerator, ice box or similar container equipped with an air-tight door or lid, snap lock, or other locking device which cannot be released from the inside, in a location accessible to children, outside any building, dwelling, or within an unoccupied or abandoned building or dwelling, or other structure, under such person's control without first removing the door, lid, snap lock, or other locking device from said icebox, refrigerator or similar container. This provision applies equally to the owner of any such refrigerator, icebox or similar container, and to the owner or occupant of the premises where the hazard is permitted to remain.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 727.3)
9. Impersonating an officer. No person shall falsely represent them self or falsely assume to be any law enforcement officer, judge or magistrate. It shall be unlawful to wear or adopt the uniform or insignia of any law enforcement officer on any street or public place.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 718.2)
10. Harassment of City Employees.
a. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully prevent, resist or obstruct or attempt to prevent, resist or obstruct any City employee from the performance of any official duty.
b. It shall be unlawful for any person to communicate by any means, any threat of bodily or property harm to any City employee or to any member of the employee’s family during the course of, or as a result of, the performance of any official duty by said City employee.
11. Antenna and radio wires. No person shall allow, locate or maintain any antenna wires, antenna supports, radio wires or television wires to exist over any street, alley, highway, sidewalk or public property.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12(2))
12. Barbed wire. No person shall install, allow to be installed or use barbed wire without the consent of the City Council.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.1)
13. Playing in streets. No person shall coast, sled or play games on streets or highways except in areas blocked off by the Chief of Police for such purposes.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12)
14. Littering Prohibited.
a. As used in this Code, “discard” means to place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit or drop, and “litter” means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste material and yard waste.
b. No person shall discard any litter within the City of Cascade, except as provided and approved by the City of Cascade, by collecting and discarding such litter in approved areas or approved receptacles.
c It is unlawful for any person to deposit or place any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste material or yard waste in any street, alley, lane, public place, private property, or body of water within the City.
d. It is unlawful to place garbage, refuse or yard waste on the private property of another, or into another garbage, refuse or yard waste containers for the purpose of being hauled away.
e. It is unlawful to permit garbage, yard waste or refuse to remain for more than ten (10) days on private property that is under one’s ownership, possession or control. Yard waste may be retained more than ten (10) days if composting is being completed.
f. Notwithstanding the above provisions, garbage, refuse or yard waste may be placed on the untraveled portions of streets, alleys, lanes, public places or on private property to be hauled away, provided the garbage, refuse or yard waste is kept in place in the manner prescribed in this Code.
(ECIA Model Code Amended in 2017)
15. Drug Paraphernalia.
1. Definitions. The term “drug paraphernalia” means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Includes, but is not limited to:
a. Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in planning, propagating, cultivating, growing or harvesting of any species of plant which is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived;
b. Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing or preparing controlled substances;
c. Isomerization devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance;
d. Testing equipment used, intended for use or designed for use in identifying or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances;
e. Scales and balances used, intended for use, or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances;
f. Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannite, dextrose or lactose used, intended for use or designed for use in cutting controlled substances;
g. Separating gins and sifters used, intended for use, or designed for use in removing twigs and seeds from, or in otherwise cleaning or refining marijuana;
h. Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, and mixing devises used, intended for use or designed for use in compounding controlled substances;
i. Capsules, balloons, envelopes and other containers used, intended for use or designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances;
j. Containers and other objects used, intended for use or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances;
k. Hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects used, intended for use or designed for use in parenterally injected controlled substances into the human body;
l. Objects used, intended for use or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish or hashish oil into the human body, such as:
(i) Metal, wooden acrylic, glass, stone, plastic or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads or punctured metal bowls,
(ii) Water pipes,
(iii) Carburetion tubes and devices
(iv) Smoking and carburetion masks
(v) Roach clips, meaning objects used to hold burning materials, such as marijuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand,
(vi) Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials,
(vii) Chamber pipes,
(viii) Carburetor pipes,
(ix) Electric pipes,
(x) Air-driven pipes,
(xi) Chillums,
(xii) Bongs,
(xiii) Ice pipes or chillers
A. Statements by an owner or by anyone in control of the object concerning its use;
B. Prior convictions, if any, of an owner, or anyone in control of the object under any State or Federal law relating to any controlled substance;
C. The proximity of the object, in time and space, to a direct violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act;
D. The proximity of the object to controlled substances;
E. The existence of any residue of controlled substances on the object;
F. Direct or circumstantial evidence of the intent of an owner or of anyone in control of the object, to deliver it to persons whom the owner knows, or should reasonably know intend to use the object to facilitate a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act; the innocence of an owner, or of anyone in control of the object as to direct violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act should not prevent a finding that the object is intended for use, or as designed for use as drug paraphernalia;
G. Instructions, oral or written, provided with the object concerning its use;
H. Descriptive materials accompanying the object which explain or depict its use;
I. National and local advertising concerning its use;
J. The manner in which the object is displayed for sale;
K. Whether the owner, or anyone in control of the object is a legitimate supplier of like or related items to the community such as a licensed distributor of dealer of tobacco products;
L. Direct or circumstantial evidence of the ratio of sales of the object(s) to the total sales of the business enterprises;
M. The existing and scope of legitimate uses for the object in the community;
N. Expert testimony concerning its use.
3. Prohibited Acts
A. Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. No person shall use or possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, package, repackage, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
B. Manufacture or Delivery of Drug Paraphernalia. No person shall deliver, possess with intent to deliver, or manufacture with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia, knowing or under circumstances where on reasonably should know, that it will be used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, package, repackage, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Substance Act.
C. Advertisement of Drug Paraphernalia. No person shall place or accept for placement in any newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication, any advertisement, knowing or under circumstances where one reasonably should know that the purpose of the advertisement in whole or in part is to promote the sale of objects designed or intended for use as drug paraphernalia.