MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 21-19-15. Enacting police regulations.

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have power to make all needful police regulations necessary for the preservation of good order and peace of the municipality and to prevent injury to, destruction of, or interference with public or private property. Said authorities shall have the power to regulate or prohibit any mill, laundry or manufacturing plant from so operating whereby the soot, cinders or smoke therefrom, or the unnecessary noises thereof, may do damage to or interfere with the use or occupation of public or private property. Said authorities shall have the power to prohibit or regulate the sale or use of firecrackers, roman candles, torpedoes, sky rockets, and any and all explosives commonly known and referred to as fireworks; the term "fireworks" shall not include toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, other devices in which paper caps manufactured in accordance with United States Interstate Commerce Commission regulations for packing and shipping of toy paper caps are used, or toy pistol paper caps manufactured as provided herein, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.

SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 2938; 1906, Sec. 3329; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 5826; 1930, Sec. 2406; 1942, Sec. 3374-124; Laws, 1926, ch. 274; 1950, chs. 517, 491, Sec. 124; 1952, ch. 365, Sec. 1.


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