This chapter shall be known and cited as “Chadds
Ford Township Firearms Safety Ordinance of 1963.”
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
FIREARMS AND SIMILAR WEAPONS
Any rifle, gun, pistol, revolver, automatic, musket, or shot
gun, when used to discharge less than nine pellets of any kind, regardless
of the propulsive power, whether gun powder, compressed air, gas or
springs or any combination of said mechanism. A shotgun when used
to discharge nine pellets or more is not included within this definition.
The Secretary of the Board of Supervisors is
hereby authorized to issue permits for the use of firearms in target
practice only to individual adult citizens of Chadds Ford Township,
after the inspection and approval of the target range by the Supervisors
of Chadds Ford Township. Such target range shall have a natural earth
backstop or a backstop of the type and kind approved by the National
Rifle Association. Such permits shall be good for a period of one
year and the initial fee for such permits, and for each renewal of
said permits thereafter, shall be as set from time to time by resolution
of the Board of Supervisors.
[Amended 12-29-1986 by Ord. No. 16A]
A. Any person who violates or permits a violation of
this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought
before a Magisterial District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of
Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default
of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that
such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated
shall also constitute a separate offense.
B. Any Township constable or any police officer duly
authorized to enforce the law within the Township of Chadds Ford is
hereby authorized to seize, remove and destroy any firearm or similar
weapon which is used in violation of any of the provisions of this
chapter.