[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Upper Merion Township 8-9-1982
as Ord. No. 82-435. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 6-2-1986 by Ord. No. 86-484]
It shall be unlawful within Upper Merion Township for any person to
discharge or cause to be discharged or to permit to be discharged or to carry
in pursuit of game with the intent to discharge or carry, etc., any weapon
or other device or mechanism which propels a projectile with force. For the
purpose of this chapter, the word "weapon" shall include, but shall not be
limited to, guns, pistols, rifles, shotguns, carbines and air rifles. Also,
for the purpose of this chapter, anyone dressed in hunting clothes, wearing
a Pennsylvania hunting license and carrying a weapon into areas where game
may be located shall be presumed to have the intent to discharge the weapon.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the official acts
of members of any law enforcement agency within the township in the performance
of their duties, nor to any approved gun club in Upper Merion Township conducting
the activities of trapshooting and target practice; provided, however, that
such area is designated of record as an authorized range by the Chief of Police
of Upper Merion Township after determination that such activities are to be
carried on in an area where the weapons are discharged away from and are directed
away from any public street. The legitimate discharge of firearms of the type
described by the Pennsylvania State Game Commission, within the boundaries
of those areas so designated for hunting and shooting by said Game Commission
after public hearing thereon and pursuant to the provisions of the State Game
Law of 1937, as amended[1] shall not be prohibited by this chapter.
[1]
Editor's Note: This law was repealed by P.L. 442, No. 93, 7(a),
effective July 1, 1987.
[Amended 12-31-1991 by Ord. No. 91-593]
Ordinance No. 92 of Upper Merion Township, being the Gunning Ordinance
thereof, is hereby repealed in its entirety by the passage of this chapter.
