[Ord. 1038, 1/13/1958, §§ 1, 2]
1.
Except as otherwise provided in § 202 hereof, it is unlawful
for any person to discharge at any time within the Township a firearm
of any description.
2.
Except as otherwise provided in § 202 hereof, it is unlawful
for any person to discharge or shoot at any time within the Township
an arrow of any description which is capable of inflicting bodily
harm or injury.
[Ord. 1038, 1/13/1958, § 3]
The provisions of § 201 of this Part shall not be
construed to apply in any manner to the discharge of any firearm or
the discharge or shooting of any arrow for the sole purpose of signalling
for aid or assistance while in distress, or in defense of person or
property, or in the line of duty as a peace officer, game protector,
fish warden or member of the armed forces of the United States, or
in the use of rifle, pistol, shotgun ranges or archery ranges, owned,
leased or maintained by a State, County, Municipal or Federal military
or police organization, or by any regularly organized rifle, pistol
or shotgun shooting organization, association, club or corporation
or individual or individuals, while shooting at a regularly established
and properly safeguarded range, or to any public shooting exhibition
or archery exhibition properly safeguarded and conducted under the
direction of any organization, individual or individuals for the promotion
of marksmanship, or to the discharge of blank shells or blank cartridges
or to the shooting of arrows during memorial or ceremonial services,
athletic or dramatic events or presentations.
[Ord. 1038, 1/3/1958, § 4]
No firearms or arrows shall be discharged or shot in using a
pistol, shotgun range or archery range or in conducting any public
shooting or archery exhibition pursuant to the provisions of § 202
hereof, unless and until said range or the site of the proposed public
shooting or archery exhibition shall have been inspected and approved
by the Police Department of the Township of Harrison, said approval
to be evidenced by a certificate signed by the Chief of Police of
said Township. Said certificate of approval shall be good only for
a period of one year, but upon proper application to and approval
by the Police Department, may be renewed from year to year. No certificate
of approval of said target, skeet shooting or archery range or of
the site of a public shooting or archery exhibition shall be issued,
unless and until all entrances to the premises upon which said range
is located or upon which the proposed public shooting or archery exhibition
is to be conducted, and all boundary lines thereof shall be properly
and sufficiently posted with warnings that said premises are private
property and that the same are being used for the operation of a shooting
or archery range or for a public shooting or archery exhibition.
[Ord. 1038, 1/13/1958, § 5]
The provisions of this Part impose additional restrictions and
penalties with reference to the discharge in the Township of Harrison
of firearms and arrows to those restrictions and penalties set forth
in the Uniform Firearms Act and the Game Laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, and all other Acts of Assembly of said Commonwealth
prohibiting or regulating use and possession of firearms and bows
and arrows within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 1038, 1/13/1958, § 6; as amended by Ord.
1782, 2/16/1987]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part 2 shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $300; and/or to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 90 days.
