No person shall fire or discharge any gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm within the limits of the Township of Delanco at any time, except as provided in §§
172-3 and
172-4 of this chapter.
No person shall carry, transport or possess any loaded gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm within the limits of the Township of Delanco at any time, except as provided in §§
172-3 and
172-4 of this chapter.
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.
This chapter shall be known as the "Delanco Township Firearms Control
Ordinance of 1979."