{"id":72676,"date":"2014-11-05T09:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T07:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72676\/celebrate-guy-fawkes-responsibly-ekurhuleni\/"},"modified":"2014-11-05T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T07:12:04","slug":"celebrate-guy-fawkes-responsibly-ekurhuleni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/05\/celebrate-guy-fawkes-responsibly-ekurhuleni\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Guy Fawkes responsibly in Ekurhuleni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the festive season just around the corner and Guy Fawkes Day taking place today, November 5, \u00a0it is important to note what the noise control regulations are and how they pertain to fireworks in Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Michael Basch shared this information with the RECORD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The EMPD disturbance of peace and Gauteng noise control regulations are:<\/p>\n<p>Section 42. Disturbance of the peace<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>(2) No person shall discharge fireworks without the prior written consent of the council, and such written consent shall hereafter be called a \u201cFireworks permit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Such \u201cFireworks permit\u201d will be readily available at the event and produced on request by an authorised officer.<\/p>\n<p>Any person failing to do so shall be guilty of an offence.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty is a fine of R2 000.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng Noise Control (Health and Environmental Health)<\/p>\n<p>Regulation 9(d)<\/p>\n<p>A penalty will be given for the discharge of fireworks in a residential area in a manner which may cause a noise nuisance.<\/p>\n<p>Offenders will be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding R20 000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='581e9eed6974051b83c03c08f7ff05d0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are urged to take note of regulations pertaining to fireworks in the City of Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":72677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1003,5426,5427],"class_list":["post-72676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-guy-fawkes-day","tag-rules-and-regulations"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","Ekurhuleni","Guy Fawkes Day","rules and regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}