[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Montour Falls 3-18-2002 by L.L. No. 2-2002.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the provisions
of the Village Law of the State of New York and provisions of the
Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Montour
Falls hereby determines that the discharge of firearms within the
Village limits poses a threat to the health, welfare and safety of
the residents of the Village, and it is the purpose of this chapter
to prohibit the discharge of firearms within the corporate limits
of the Village of Montour Falls.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, or other implement,
whether loaded through the muzzle or otherwise, which discharges a
bullet, cartridge, shell, shell shot, arrow, pellet, or other object
propelled by the burning or explosion of gunpowder, electronically,
by high pressure from pumping, gas cartridge, by spring which is set
by a cocking or cranking operation, by the application and release
of tension or pressure to a bowstring, or other means. This definition
shall include any firearm classified as illegal by the Penal Law of
the State of New York, as the same may be from time to time amended.
No person shall discharge a firearm within the
corporate limits of the Village of Montour Falls unless:
A.
Such person is a law enforcement officer in the execution
of his/her office.
B.
Such discharge of a firearm is done in an organized
and certified indoor pistol range for the training and qualifying
of law enforcement officers.
C.
Such discharge of a firearm is done in self-defense
as permitted and defined by the Penal Law of the State of New York.
[Added 2-7-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005[1]]
This chapter shall not apply to the following
wetlands and other properties of the State of New York as shown on
the tax rolls of the Village of Montour Falls:
A.
Tax Map No. 76.14-1-2: NYSDEC, wetlands, 6.3 acres.
B.
Tax Map No. 76.14-1-4: State of New York, 36.89 acres.
C.
Tax Map No. 76.15-1-1: NYSDEC, marsh, 116.5 acres.
D.
Tax Map No. 76.15-1-3: NYSDEC, 6.5 acres.
E.
Tax Map No. 76.11-2-4: State of New York, 158.90 acres.
F.
Tax Map No. 76.16-1-2.112: State of New York, wetlands,
37.24 acres.
G.
Tax Map No. 76.19-2-3: State of New York, 5.54 acres.
Any person committing an offense and convicted
of violating any provision of this chapter shall be punishable by
a fine not exceeding $250 for each offense or imprisonment for a period
not exceeding 15 days, or both fine and imprisonment. The repetition
of an offense against the provisions of this chapter shall constitute,
for each day the offense is repeated, a separate and distinct offense
hereunder.
