Township of Delanco, NJ
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2023-09-11
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Part III General Legislation
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Chapter 172 Firearms
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration of Government
- Ch 10 Boards, Commissions, Departments, Employees and Professionals
- Ch 15 Civil Service
- Ch 17 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 18 Economic Advisory Council
- Ch 19 Ethics
- Ch 21 Fire Companies, Volunteer
- Ch 26 Hearing Officer
- Ch 29 History Board
- Ch 33 Meetings and Communications
- Ch 35 Personnel Practices and Policies
- Ch 40 Purchasing and Payment of Claims
- Ch 42 Retirement
- Land Use Procedures
- Ch 50 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 56 Delinquent Taxes, Liens and Utility Charges
- Ch 57 Design Guidelines
- Ch 58 Fair Housing
- Ch 60 Fee and Escrow Schedule
- Ch 65 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 77 Off-Street Parking Requirements
- Ch 80 Public Outdoor Recreational Facilities
- Ch 83 Redevelopment
- Ch 87 Sewer Connections
- Ch 91 Site Plan Approval
- Ch 95 Soil Removal
- Ch 100 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 110 Zoning
- General Legislation
- Ch 115 Air Pollution
- Ch 117 Alarm Systems
- Ch 119 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 123 Animals
- Ch 127 Assemblies, Mass Public
- Ch 130 Background Checks
- Ch 135 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 139 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 145 Certificate of Habitability
- Ch 150 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 154 Curfew
- Ch 160 Drug-Free School Zones
- Ch 161 Drunk-Driving-Free School Zones
- Ch 168 Fees
- Ch 172 Firearms
- § 172-1 Firing within township limits prohibited.
- § 172-2 Possession within township limits prohibited.
- § 172-3 Exceptions.
- § 172-4 Additional restrictions.
- § 172-5 Violations and penalties.
- § 172-6 Title.
- Ch 178 (Reserved)
- Ch 179 Fire Safety Code
- Ch 183 Garage and Yard Sales
- Ch 185 Garbage Disposals
- Ch 190 Graffiti
- Ch 193 Hawk Island
- Ch 197 Housing Standards
- Ch 202 Lead-Based Paint Inspections
- Ch 205 Licenses, Business
- Ch 211 Noise
- Ch 213 Outdoor Eating Facilities
- Ch 214 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 216 Park Regulations
- Ch 218 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 220 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 222 Property Maintenance
- Ch 224 Public Records, Access to
- Ch 228 Raffles and Bingo
- Ch 232 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 234 Rental Property
- Ch 237 Sewers
- Ch 237A Sex Offenders
- Ch 238 Shade Trees
- Ch 240 Sidewalk and Curb Repair
- Ch 241 Skateboarding, Roller Skating and Skate Park
- Ch 245 Solid Waste and Mandatory Recycling
- Ch 247 Storm Sewers
- Ch 249 Stormwater Management
- Ch 250 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 254 Swimming Pools
- Ch 256 Taxation
- Ch 258 Taxicabs
- Ch 259 Temporary Storage Units
- Ch 260 Towing
- Ch 266 Wells and Abandoned Excavations
- Vehicles, Parking and Traffic
- Ch 270 Bicycles
- Ch 287 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 291 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 295 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 297 Unlawful Storage
- Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 300 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 310 Nuisances, Public Health
- Appendix
- Ch A325 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Delanco
10-29-1979 by Ord. No. 11-1979 (Ch. 58 of the 1971 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
Subject to § 172-4 hereof, the foregoing two sections of this chapter shall not apply to:
A.
Any individual owner or lessee of private land and members
of his or her immediate family, and the directors, officers and employees
of any corporate owner or lessee of private land, while on such land.
B.
Any member of the local police force of the Police Department
of the township and any other authorized law officer of the township, the
State of New Jersey, every county and other agency and subdivision of the
State of New Jersey, the federal government and the government of every other
state while in the proper discharge of his or her lawfully authorized duties.
No person excepted under § 172-3 of this chapter shall fire or have a loaded gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm within 450 feet of any dwelling, church, store, schoolhouse, school grounds, barn, garage, filling station, public park, airport, industrial or commercial establishment, municipal waterworks, municipal sewage treatment works and municipal sanitary landfill (excluding the dwellings and accessory buildings of such owner or lessee on such private land), or within 450 feet of any public or school playground or any athletic field.
A.
Any individual person who is not in compliance with the
game laws of the township and any individual found with a loaded firearm within
areas declared "Township Safety Zones" as posted shall be presumed in violation
of this chapter.
This chapter shall be known as the "Delanco Township Firearms Control
Ordinance of 1979."
