Television reporters may not throw candy to the crowd during a parade.
Sec. 34-27. Throwers restricted. (a) Riders or maskers are prohibited from tossing throws or favors to the rear and/or front of their floats or trucks and in the parade formation and disbanding areas. (b) No parade participant other than the members or float riders in the parade of the carnival organization and its special guest…
No one may throw a bottle of Coke at a parade float.
Sec. 34-29. Throwbacks. It shall be unlawful for a person to throw any object at a float or at any participant in a carnival parade. (M.C.S., Ord. No. 19,314, § 1, 7-15-99)
Condoms may not be thrown from parade floats during Mardi Gras.
Sec. 34-28. Prohibited throws. (a) No Mardi Gras parade participant, while participating in a parade on the parade route, in a parade staging area or in a parade disbanding area, shall possess or have in his custody or control any of the following: (1) Any life-threatening objects or safety-threatening objects, including, but not limited to…
“No Smoking” signs shall be placed on all floats used during a parade.
Sec. 34-18. Smoking prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke while participating in a carnival parade or truck parade. A “no smoking” sign shall be securely attached and plainly visible to all occupants of a float, minifloat or tandem float. (M.C.S., Ord. No. 19,314, § 1, 7-15-99)
Snakes are not allowed within 200 yards of the Mardi Gras parade route.
Sec. 34-21. Animals prohibited. No reptiles shall be allowed within 200 yards of a Mardi Gras parade route not less than two hours before the published scheduled start of a parade, nor within 200 yards of the actual end of a parade for not less than one hour after the actual end of the parade…
It is illegal to practice voodoo in the city limits.
Sec. 54-312. Fortunetelling. It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise for or engage in, for a monied consideration, the business of (chronology, phrenology, astrology, palmistry), telling or pretending to tell fortunes, either with cards, hands, water, letters or other devices or methods, or to hold out inducements, either through the press or otherwise,…
City commission members may not drink during a public meeting or risk a $50 fine.
Sec. 54-409. Drinking during public meetings. (a) It shall be unlawful for councilmembers, board or commission members, directors, and employees of the city, or any other person, to consume alcoholic beverages in the council chamber or any other public meeting room or facility owned, rented or leased by the city during any public meeting as…
“Mardi Gras Beads” may not be thrown from a third story window.
Sec. 54-413. Throwing prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, cast, or propel any substance from any aperture, window, door, staircase, balcony, or roof that is eight or more feet above street level onto any public place, way, street, sidewalk, neutral ground or highway within the city. (Code 1956, § 42-80.1)