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<br />AftDINANCE IVG. ~ cJ~
<br />AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE SALE AND DISCHARGE CF FIREWORKS, TCR-
<br />PIDC'ES, RACKETS, Arm OTHER CCMBUSTIBI.E FIREWdf-tKS OF ArdY KIrtT' C,r4 .?ATUI,E; PROHIBI-
<br />TING THE SHCC~TING, FIRING CR DISCHARGING ANY Ot?N, RE~/OLVER, QR PISTOL, WITHIN
<br />I THE CITY CF LA FOitTE, TEXAS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; itEPEALINS ALL AFtDINANCE
<br />CR PARTS CF ditDINAP7CFS IN CC.~r~LICT THEREWITH; PROVIDING THAT ANY PERSON, FIRM,
<br />CCkPCtZATIAN, CAA4PANY OR ASSdCIATICN, WHO SHALL VIOLATE ANY CF THE PROVISIONS GF
<br />THIS ORDINANCE, SHALL UFCN CONVICTIdN THEREFCF: BE FINED IN ANY SUM NCT TC EXCEED
<br />'THE SUlvl OF CNE HUNDr~tED DCLLAiiS ( $100.00 ).
<br />I THAT:
<br />BE IT CkDAINED BY THE CITY CCr.~JIISSICi1 CF THE CITY OF LA PGfiTE, TEXAS;
<br />Section 1. IJo person, firm, company, corporation or association
<br />shall cast, throw, shoot, fire or discharge any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo,
<br />grenade, gun, revolver, pistol, cap or cartridge, or any combustible fireworks
<br />of any kind in the City of La Forte, Texas.
<br />Section 2. No person, firm, company, corporation or association
<br />doing business within the City of La Porte, Texas, shall exhi}ait or have in his
<br />or its possession, with intent to give away, sell or offer for sa1c~, to whole-
<br />salexs, retailers or ultimate consumers, any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo,
<br />grenade, cap or cartridge, or other combustible fireworks of any kind or nature.)
<br />Section 3. Nothing in this ordinance shall be co:~str~!ed to apply to
<br />the sale, storage or use of railroad track torpedoes, or other signallinn device
<br />used by railroads, nor to the sale, storage or use of flashlight composition by
<br />photographers or dealers in photographic supplies, or prevent any public or pri-
<br />vate demonstration or display of fireworks of any kind, if conducted under pxope
<br />police supervision after application made, and permit issued, by the City Commis
<br />sion of the City of La Porte, Texas, for such demonstration. Said permit shall
<br />not be grantee unless such demonstration or display shall be of such a character..
<br />and so located, discharged or fixed, as in the opinion of the said City Commis-
<br />sion of the City of La Porte, Texas, after proper inspection, shall not be
<br />hazardous to property or er-danger any person or persons.
<br />Section 4. A.ny person, firm, corporation, company or association
<br />who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall upon conviction
<br />therefor be fined in any sum not to exceed the sum of C'ne Hundred Dollars ($100.p0).
<br />Section 5. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here-
<br />with are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict and Cxdiriance No. 3E1 is
<br />hereby in all things expressly repealed.
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