No person shall fire or discharge any gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm within the limits of the Township of Moorestown at any time, except as provided in §§ 75-3 and 75-4 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 Moorestown at any time, except as provided in §§ 75-3 and 75-4 of this chapter.
Subject to § 75-4 hereof, the foregoing two sections of this chapter shall not apply to:
Any individual owner or lessee of private land and
the members of his immediate family, and the directors, officers and
employees of any corporate owner or lessee of private land, while
on such land.
Any individual person who has received permission
from the owner or lessee of private land and any individual member
of a bona fide gun club which is the owner or lessee of private land,
with the written permission of an authorized representative of such
gun club, while on such land, provided that there shall have been
registered with the Police Department of the Township the following:
After such permission and registration shall have
been fully and accurately entered upon forms prescribed by the Director
of Public Safety of the Township and such completed forms shall have
been delivered to the Police Department.[1]
After payment to the Police Department of such fee
as may be uniformly prescribed by the Director of Public Safety to
defray the cost of registration to the Township.[2]
During such times as such individual person or member
wears conspicuously on his person such identifying card, badge or
tag as the Director of Public Safety may from time to time prescribe
and issue.[3]
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 lawfully authorized duties.
No person excepted under § 75-3A or B of this chapter shall fire or discharge any gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm or carry, transport or possess any loaded gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm within 300 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 400 feet of any public or school playground or any athletic field.
No person excepted under § 75-3A or B of this chapter shall fire or discharge any gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm upon or across any state, county or municipal road or highway.[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 75-5, Violations and penalties, as amended, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 3-20-2006 by Ord. No. 5-2006. See now Ch. 66, Penalties for Code Violations.