Township of Ridley, PA
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2017-03-22
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 318 Weapons
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Article I Air Guns
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Authorities
- Ch 9 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 14 Educational Service Agency
- Ch 18 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 22 Fire Department
- Ch 37 Officers and Employees
- Ch 41 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 45 Police Civil Service Commission
- Ch 46 Procurement
- Ch 50 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 53 Smoking
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 62 Adult Uses
- Ch 66 Alarms and Alarm Systems
- Ch 69 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 73 Amusement Devices
- Ch 77 Animals
- Ch 81 Auctions
- Ch 88 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 92 Building Construction
- Ch 95 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 99 Cable Television
- Ch 103 Claims, Municipal
- Ch 105 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 108 Day-Care Homes
- Ch 113 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 117 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 120 Electrical Standards
- Ch 122 Energy Conservation
- Ch 124 Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 129 Excavations
- Ch 135 Fire Prevention
- Ch 138 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 140 Fuel and Heating
- Ch 147 Handbills
- Ch 151 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 155 Health Code
- Ch 160 Improvements, Assessment of
- Ch 163 Insurance
- Ch 168 Landscaping
- Ch 173 Licensing
- Ch 176 Loitering and Curfew
- Ch 180 Massage and Massage Establishments
- Ch 181 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 190 Noise and Nuisances
- Ch 195 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 199 Parades and Processions
- Ch 202 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 205 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 209 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 213 Picketing
- Ch 216 Plumbing
- Ch 220 Police Services
- Ch 224 Property Maintenance
- Ch 225 Rental Dwelling Units
- Ch 228 Sales, Seasonal
- Ch 232 Secondhand Materials; Pawnbrokers
- Ch 237 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 241 Shopping Carts
- Ch 245 Shows and Special Events
- Ch 249 Signs and Billboards
- Ch 253 Solid Waste
- Ch 256 Speed-Timing Devices
- Ch 260 Stormwater Management
- Ch 264 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 268 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 271 Swimming Pools
- Ch 275 Taxation
- Ch 278 Taxicabs
- Ch 282 Telecommunications
- Ch 285 Tents
- Ch 290 Trees
- Ch 294 Utility Lines
- Ch 299 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 303 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 306 Vehicles, Towing of
- Ch 310 Walls and Fences
- Ch 314 Wastewater Treatment
- Ch 318 Weapons
- Ch 318 Art I Air Guns
- § 318-1 Discharge prohibited.
- § 318-2 Sales.
- § 318-3 Right of seizure.
- § 318-4 Exemption.
- § 318-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 325 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 3-19-1975 as Ch. 153 of the 1975 Code]
No person shall discharge or use, or possess for the purpose of discharging
or using, any air gun, air pistol, spring gun, spring pistol or any implement
not a firearm which impels with force an object or pellet of any nature or
kind. Upon prosecution of any person violating the provisions of this article,
the District Justice before whom such case is being heard may infer that the
possession of an air gun, air pistol, spring gun, spring pistol or any implement
not a firearm which impels with force a pellet of any nature or kind was for
the purpose of discharging or using the same.
No person, persons, firm or corporation shall store, sell, offer or
expose for sale at retail or have in his, its or their possession with intent
to sell any air gun, air pistol, spring gun, spring pistol or any implement
not a firearm which impels with force a pellet of any nature or kind within
the Township of Ridley.
The Captain of Police of the Township of Ridley is hereby authorized
to seize or remove and destroy any air gun, air pistol, spring gun, spring
pistol or any implement not a firearm which impels with force a pellet of
any nature or kind which shall be used or discharged within the Township of
Ridley or which shall be held and possessed in violation of this article.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the use of fireworks
within the Township of Ridley, provided that the explosion and discharge of
the same shall be pursuant to a permit issued by the Township of Ridley in
accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 15, 1939, P.L. 134.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: 35 P.S. § 1271 et seq.
Except as otherwise provided by state law, every person violating this
article shall, upon conviction before a District Justice, be sentenced to
pay a fine not exceeding $1,000, together with costs of prosecution, and upon
default in the payment thereof, be sentenced to undergo imprisonment for a
period not exceeding 30 days.
