§ 385.310. Incendiary or explosive devices.

(a)  Policy. As an aid in the interpretation and enforcement of this section the city council finds that disobedience and disrespect of the law has been increasing and that a large number of persons have resorted to the manufacture and use of homemade flammable or explosive devices such as, but not limited to, the so-called Molotov cocktail, and that such devices are easily made and are capable of inflicting great damage and injury upon innocent persons and destroying property; that such devices are extremely difficult of complete description, and it being the desire of the city council to minimize all such dangers by making illegal the manufacture, use and possession of such devices, without restricting the use and possession of standard commonplace household devices, such as matches, lamps, cigarette lighters and similar instruments, this section is therefore enacted.

(b)

Prohibited. It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, cause to be manufactured, sell, offer or expose for sale, rent, give away or barter, or have in his possession any incendiary device containing more than one ounce of any flammable substance, or any so-called "Molotov cocktail" or similar hand grenade or device made of any receptacle containing more than one ounce of flammable substance and fitted with a wick or other device capable of burning or exploding the same when hurled at or coming into contact with some other object.

(c)

Encouraging violations. It is unlawful for any person to aid or encourage another to violate the terms of this section.

(d)

Illumination devices excluded. For the purposes of this section, no device commercially manufactured primarily for the purpose of illumination shall be deemed to be a flammable or explosive device. (Code 1960, As Amend., §§ 882.010—882.040)