An Ordinance Relating to Misdemeanors, § 21, in The Act of Incorporation and Ordinances of the City of Bunker Hill, Illinois 66 (1873).
Abstract
Whoever shall, in any part of the city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol or other firearms, or shall set off, fire or explode any torpedo, fire cracker, fire ball, rocket or other fire works, whatever, or shall make or kindle any bonfire shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one dollar for each offense
Summary
This ordinance prohibited firing guns or fireworks and lighting bonfires within the city, with fines of at least one dollar per violation. Exceptions were allowed for national holidays, public celebrations, military parades, official duties, and safe firearm use on private property.
Law Text
Sec. 21. Whoever shall, in any part of the city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol or other firearms, or shall set off, fire or explode any torpedo, fire cracker, fire ball, rocket or other fire works, whatever, or shall make or kindle any bonfire shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one dollar for each offense. But the discharge of firearms, setting off or exploding of fire works, and the making of bonfires upon National holidays, and in the celebration of other public and general events, or the discharge of firearms by the members of any military company when on parade, and in accordance with the command of the commanding officer, or by any city officer or other person in the discharge of any legal duty or lawful act, or by any person upon his own premises, when the same may be done in such a manner as not to endanger, or be likely to endanger, the safety of any person or the injury of any property, shall not be deemed any violation hereof.
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