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AN ORDII-AITCE 1PBLOI-1 I B IT I'L' T1- S ALI"�' OR
T OF FIREWORKS IK TEE CITY OF BTTRLIIiG.L-E.
M-MME:,ASt the City Council of the City of Burlingwne
deems it necessary for the protection and safety of its citizens
as well as its property that the practice of possessing, selling
fireworks in the City of Burlinga-�-rie is detriiiiental to
and using
the people at large, and
M-111,1REIAS, it is the desire of the City Council of the
City of 3urlinga.'f.le to protect its citizens and its property;
110111 Tlrj-'IEEFOR-12`111 BE IT ORDAI17-]-]D by the City Council of
the City of Burlingeff-,ie, as follows:
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, fir-cja
or corporation to possess, well, deliver or deal in any fore, of
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fireworks in the City of Burlingame commonly used on Independence
Day, or other celebration, except as hereinafter provided.
SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm
or corporation to use or explode or fire, or cause to be used or
exploded or fired in the City of Burlingame any fireworks
com.monly used on Independence Day, or other celebration, except
as hereinafter provided.
SECTION 3. Vihenever P-. majority of the City Council
of the City of Burlingame deer -.q-0 it advisable to permit the use
of fireworks for the purpose of celebration of any kind, the
City Council may grant a. permit, upon a proper application PA.ade
at least ten (10) days before the proposed.useof fireworks, and
Vhich application shall be in writing signed by the applicant
and sponsored in said application 'by the presiding officer and
secretary of a responsible organization of the city; and which
application shall not be made for a longer period at one time
than one (1) day, and the use of which fireworks shall be only
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during the said day between eight o'clock a, m. to midnight.
The permit, ho -lever, may be extended by the Council upon good
and valid reasons shown, which in no event shall e-tl--ceed three
additional days between the same hours.. The application afore-
said shall be in triplicate, one to be filed with the Chief of
Police of the City of 3urlingame; one to be filed �,vith the Chief
Engineer of the Fire Department of the City of Burlingame; and
one to be filed with the City Clek of the City of Burlingame.
Within five days of said filings with said Chief of Police and
Chief P'-'Ingineer of the Fire Department, said officials shall
forward to the City Council of the City of Burlingame their
respective reports as to their recommendations.
SECTIOUF 4. This ordinance shall not apply to the
manufacture of fireworks, when made for possession, sale and
use outside of the city, and when such manufacture is confined
to the industrial district of, the city.
SECTION 5. This ordinance expressly repeals all other
ordinances pertainin,!f-L to the possession, sale, delivery, or use
of fireworks within the city, except ordinances governing the use
of dynamite, or other explosives used for blasting in public
work, or used for commercial purposes in specific cases under
permit from the City Council,
SECTION 6. If any section, sub -section, sentence,
clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to
be unconstitutional, such hol6ing shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this ordina:;nce, or of this
ordinance as a whole, and the City Council of the City of
Burlingame do hereby decleare that they would have passed this
ordinance and each sect -ion, sub -section, sentence, clause and
phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections, sub -sections, satences, causes or phrases thereof
are or may hereafter be declared unconstitutional.
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-?CTION 7. Any person, firin' or cor CL
I, poration viol..-tir)g
any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor arld shall be
punished by it fire of not less than
0 n e u n d re d Dollr-�.rs (.-100.0o) or more th�73'n Three I-Jundred DollG,rs
( ;1300.00), or by ipiprison-fnient in the Cj-ty Jail for a, period
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not, to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both. s.-Iid'- fine and
im-o, r i s o ni.o -.I n t .
INTRODUCED this 16th day of March, 1936, and duly
and regul^.rly passedthis 6th _ day of April . 1936, by
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AY 03, Councilmen:
%iCPE S, Council -men:
A-33 I'T, Councilrtien:
AT' -f ST :
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Bnok - Handlos - High Hint
y Clerk.
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Hives
File� in tie OfficP Of the City Clerk of the
City of PlorI.Ing.-f1mr ti'l, day of
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J. III,. Al'u'Pil"ter, CRY Clerk
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