2249ORDINANCE NO. 2249
COUNCIL MEMBER HALL INTRODUCED THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE BLAIR MUNICIPAL CODE, CHAPTER 7, ARTICLE 4,
SECTION 7 -402 PERTAINING TO THE REGULATION OF THE SALE, DISCHARGE, AND
POSSESSION OF FIREWORKS IN THE CITY OF BLAIR, WASHINGTON COUNTY,
NEBRASKA; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH, AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE IN FULL FORCE AND
EFFECT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BLAIR,
NEBRASKA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 7, Article 4 of the Municipal Code of the City of Blair, Nebraska is as
follows:
"Section 7 -402 DAYS AND HOURS OF SALE , DISCHARGE, AND
POSSESSION It shall be unlawful for any person within the City of Blair to offer
for sale, discharge, ignite, use, explode or set off any permitted fireworks as set forth
in Sec. 7 -401 at any time except between the hours of 8:00 o'clock a.m. and 10:30
O'clock p.m. between June 24 and July 2 and between the hours of 8:00 o'clock
a.m. and 11:30 p.m. between July 3 and July 5, inclusive, of each year, except any
public display that maybe approved by the City from time to time. It shall be
unlawful for any person within the City to have in his /her possession any fireworks
which are prohibited from being sold, used, or discharged by the provisions of this
Section or the previous Section. If any person shall have in his possession any
fireworks which are prohibited from being sold, a warrant may be issued for the
seizure of the fireworks, the same shall be safely kept by the Chief of Police to be
used as evidence. Upon conviction of the offender, the fireworks shall be destroyed,
but if the offender shall be discharged, the fireworks shall be returned to the person in
whose possession they were found.
SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and following the passage
and publication hereof as required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 9TH day of JULY, 2013.
CITY OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA
ATTEST:
BRENDA R. WHEELER, CITY CLERK
(SEAL)
STATE OF NEBRASKA )
) :ss:
WASHINGTON COUNTY )
J E. REALPH, MAYOR
BRENDA R. WHEELER hereby certifies that she is the duly appointed, qualified and acting
City Clerk of the City of Blair, Nebraska, and that the above and foregoing Ordinance was passed
and approved at a regular meeting of the Mayor and City Council of said City held on the 9th day of
July, 2013.
B NDA R. WHEELER, CITY CLERK