[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Moorestown 8-12-1968 by Ord. No. 601. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Penalties for Code violations — See Ch. 66.
Subject to § 75-4 hereof, the foregoing two sections of this chapter shall not apply to:
A.
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.
B.
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:
(1)
The name and address of such individual person or
individual members.
(2)
The name and street address of such owner or lessee.
(3)
The post office address and lot and block numbers
according to the Township Tax Maps of such land.
(4)
Such written permission signed by such owner or lessee
or by such authorized representative of a gun club.
C.
Such permission and registration shall be valid only:
(1)
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]
(3)
During such time or times as to which said permission
may be expressly limited, but in no case beyond one year from the
date of registration.
D.
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.
A.
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.
