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1. It is unlawful for a person to discharge rifles, shotguns, revolvers, pistols, guns, BB guns, pellet rifles and pistols or other firearms of any kind within the City limits except by written consent of the Council.
2. No person shall intentionally discharge a firearm in a reckless manner.
It is unlawful for a person to throw stones, bricks or missiles of any kind or to shoot arrows, rubber guns, slingshots, air rifles 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 Council.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12 [2])
It is unlawful for any person to urinate or defecate onto any sidewalk, street, alley, or other public way, or onto any public or private building, including but not limited to the wall, floor, hallway, steps, stairway, doorway or window thereof, or onto any public or private land.
1. Definitions.
A. Consumer fireworks means first-class consumer fireworks and second-class consumer fireworks as those terms are defined in subparagraphs (C) and (E) below.
B. Display Fireworks means any explosive composition, or combination of explosive substances, or article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect.
C. First-class consumer fireworks means the following fireworks, as described in APA standard 87-1, chapter 3:
(1) Aerial shell kits and reloadable tubes
(2) Chasers
(3) Helicopters and aerial spinners
(4) Firecrackers
(5) Mine and shell devices
(6) Missile-type rockets
(7) Roman Candles
(8) Sky Rockets and bottle rockets
(9) Multiple tube devices under this paragraph (3) that are manufactured in accordance with APA standard 87-1, Section 3.5.
D. Novelties means all novelties enumerated in chapter 3 of the APA's standard 87-1, and that comply with the labeling regulations promulgated by the United States consumer product safety commission. Novelties include party poppers, snappers, toy smoke devices, snakes and glow worms, and wire sparklers as defined in APA standard 87-1, section 3.2.
E. Second class fireworks means the following consumer fireworks, as described in APA standard 87-1, chapter 3:
(1) Cone fountains
(2) Cylindrical fountains
(3) Flitter sparklers
(3) Flitter sparklers
(4) Ground and hand-held sparkling devices, including multiple tube ground and hand-held sparkling devices that are manufactured in accordance with APA standard 87-1, section 3.5
(5) Ground spinners
(6) Illuminating torches
(7) Toy smoke devices that are not classified as novelties pursuant to APA standard 87-1, section 3.2
(8) Wheels
(9) Wire or dipped sparklers that are not classified as novelties pursuant to APA standard 87-1, section 3.2
2. Prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or explode consumer fireworks within the city limits of the City of Mt. Vernon. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or explode display fireworks within the City of Mt. Vernon, unless a permit is properly obtained as set forth in subsection (4) below.
3. Exceptions. Chapter 41.11 shall not apply to the use of blank cartridges for the show or theater, or for signal purposes in athletic sports or by railroads or trucks, for signal purposes, or by a recognized military organization. Nor shall this section apply to any substance or composition prepared and sold for medicinal or fumigation purposes.
4. Display Fireworks. The Council may, upon application in writing, grant a permit for the use and explosion of display fireworks within the city limits of the City of Mt. Vernon by municipalities, fair associations, schools, and other organizations or groups of individuals when the use and explosion of such display fireworks will be handled by a competent operator, and when the applicant has provided proof of liability insurance in the amounts set forth below is shown.
A. Personal Injury: $250,000.00 per person.
B. Property Damage: $ 50,000.00.
C. Total Exposure: $1,000,000.00.
5. Violation. Violation of this section is a simple misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)
No person shall hunt with a firearm, bow and arrow, spear or any other device capable of inflicting death or injury to any animal or person, or set traps of any kind, except traps for pest or nuisance control, within the corporate City limits. This section is not applicable to trapping within the corporate City limits when the property is zoned “agricultural.”
No person shall knowingly resist or obstruct anyone known by the person to be a peace officer, emergency medical care provider or fire fighter, whether paid or volunteer, in the performance of any act which is within the scope of the lawful duty or authority of that officer, emergency medical care provider or fire fighter, or shall knowingly resist or obstruct the service or execution by any authorized person of any civil or criminal process or order of any court. The terms "resist" and "obstruct" as used in this section do not include verbal harassment unless the verbal harassment is accompanied by a present ability and apparent intention to execute a verbal threat physically.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 719.1)