City ordinance allows for fireworks twice annually on July 4 and December 31.
No fireworks allowed before 10 a.m. or after 10 p.m. on Independence Day.
No fireworks allowed before 10 a.m. or after 12:30 a.m. on New Year's Eve.
It shall be unlawful, in the city, to:
(1) Offer for sale or sell permissible fireworks to children under the age of 14 years unless accompanied by a parent.
(2) Explode or ignite fireworks within 600 feet of any church, hospital, asylum or public school.
(3) Explode or ignite fireworks within 75 feet of where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale.
(4) Ignite or discharge any permissible fireworks within or throw fireworks from any vehicle.
(5) Place or throw any ignited fireworks into or at any motor vehicle.
(6) Ignite or explode fireworks in any public gathering or at any public assemblage. Public gathering or public assemblage as used in this section, shall, in addition to the usual and accepted meaning and without in any way limiting the comprehensive terms, include parades, parking lots used by the general public, whether of public or private ownership, drive-ins, stores, shopping centers, theatres, public entertainments or public displays.
(7) Ignite, explode or discharge any fireworks in a garage, filling station, warehouse, storage area or other location at which gasoline, oil, gas, cotton, hay or other inflammable materials are displayed, sold, utilized or stored.
(8) Ignite, explode or discharge any fireworks during any state declared "red flag alert" or Governor's burning ban.
(9) Ignite, explode or discharge any fireworks on property not owned or under the control of the person(s) igniting, exploding or discharging the fireworks. Except that the owner of record may grant permission for the express use of said property to ignite, explode or discharge fireworks.
(10) Ignite, explode or discharge any fireworks which land on property not owned or under the control of the person(s) igniting, exploding or discharging the fireworks.
(11) It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to collect and safely dispose of any spend component of an exploded or discharged firework, whether on public or private property.
No. The practice of going in and upon private residences in the city, by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise not having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or occupant of the private residences for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise or disposing of or peddling or hawking them is declared to be a nuisance and punishable as a nuisance as a misdemeanor.
Yes. It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke in the following public places:
(a) City-owned or occupied buildings
(b) City-owned parks, athletic fields, tennis courts, the Riverwalk, and all other outdoor recreational facilities and the city-owned parking lots serving such facilities.
(c) Inside the designated area for special events held on public property.
(d) Smoking means the inhaling, exhaling, burning, lighting or carrying of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, or similar device or any other lighted tobacco product. "Smoking" also includes the use of an e-cigarette which creates a vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any oral smoking device for the purpose of circumventing the prohibition of smoking in this ordinance.
(e) Smoking materials includes e-cigarettes, cigars, cigarettes and all other manner of smoking devices intended to be used for the purpose of inhaling, burning, carrying or exhaling lighted tobacco products.
Contact the Conway Police Department at 843-248-1790 and request to speak to Community Services Sergeant Darren Alston. He can advise if there is a crime watch in your neighborhood or assist you in getting on established.