Borough of Hillsdale, NJ
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2023-06-13
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 142 Firearms
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 9 Claims, Bills and Salaries, Payment of
- Ch 12 Contracts, Public Professional Service
- Ch 13 Contracts With Governmental Contracting Units
- Ch 17 Court, Municipal
- Ch 21 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 25 Environmental Commission
- Ch 29 Fire Department
- Ch 32 Flag, Official
- Ch 35 Health, Board of
- Ch 39 Housing Authority
- Ch 45 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 51 Officers and Employees
- Ch 55 Our Town Committee
- Ch 57 Payroll
- Ch 59 Personnel Practices
- Ch 63 Police Department
- Ch 67 Recreation Commission
- Ch 68 Retirement
- Ch 69 Sexual Harassment Policy
- Ch 71 Swimming Pool Commission
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 84 Alarm Systems
- Ch 88 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 92 Amusements
- Ch 96 Animals
- Ch 100 Auctions
- Ch 106 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 110 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 116 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 124 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 126 Criminal History Background Checks
- Ch 130 Drive-In Theaters
- Ch 132 Drunk Driving Free School Zones
- Ch 138 Fees
- Ch 140 Filming, Commercial and Movie
- Ch 142 Firearms
- § 142-1 Definitions.
- § 142-2 Discharge of firearms prohibited; exception.
- § 142-3 Persons exempted.
- § 142-4 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 146 Fire Prevention
- Ch 154 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 158 Games of Chance
- Ch 162 Garage Sales
- Ch 166 Gasoline Service Stations
- Ch 171 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 175 Hydraulic Fracturing
- Ch 178 Insurance
- Ch 184 Library
- Ch 188 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 190 Lien Searches, Municipal
- Ch 192 Limousines
- Ch 196 Littering
- Ch 200 Mailboxes
- Ch 204 Mobile Telephones
- Ch 208 Noise Control
- Ch 212 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 216 Parades and Street Meetings
- Ch 218 Parking Lots
- Ch 220 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 224 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 226 Penalties
- Ch 228 Property Maintenance
- Ch 230 Records
- Ch 232 Recycling
- Ch 234 Rental Property
- Ch 240 Sewers
- Ch 246 Smoking
- Ch 248 Soil Movement
- Ch 252 Solid Waste
- Ch 256 Stonybrook Swim Club
- Ch 258 Storm Sewers
- Ch 260 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 264 Swimming Pools, Private
- Ch 268 Target Ranges
- Ch 270 Taxation
- Ch 272 Taxicabs
- Ch 274 Tobacco Products
- Ch 276 Trailers and Camp Cars
- Ch 284 Traveling Shows, Carnivals and Circuses
- Ch 286 Trees
- Ch 288 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 292 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 294 Vehicles, Idling of
- Part III: Land Use Legislation
- Ch 305 Contribution Disclosure Statements
- Ch 310 Land Use
- Part IV: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 323 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 329 Air Pollution
- Ch 331 Extermination
- Ch 335 Fees
- Ch 339 Food Establishments
- Ch 345 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 353 Sanitary Inspector
- Ch 358 Solid Waste Management
- Ch 361 Swimming Pools
- Ch 363 Tobacco Sales
- Ch 365 Wildlife, Feeding of
- Ch 369 Water Supply, Protection of
- Appendix
- Ch A374 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A375 Telephone Company
- Ch A376 Fire Official and Fire Department Standard Operating Guide
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Hillsdale
6-27-1972 by Ord. No. 72-9 as Ch. 13, Art. 3, of the Revised Ordinances of
1972. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic
and semiautomatic rifle or other firearm as the term is commonly used, or
any gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be
fired or ejected any solid projectile, ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet,
or any gas, vapor or other noxious thing, by means of a cartridge or shell
or by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive
substances. "Firearm" shall also include, without limitation, any firearm
which is in the nature of any air gun, spring gun or pistol, carbon dioxide
or compressed air gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which
the propelling force is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed
or other gas, or vapor, air or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed
air, and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than 3/8 of an inch in diameter,
with sufficient force to injure the person.
No person shall discharge any firearm within the Borough, except as
otherwise provided in this chapter.
The provisions of section § 142-2 of this chapter shall not apply to any person:
