[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Riverside as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 7-26-1967 by Ord. No. 1967-13 (Ch. 146, Art. II,
of the 1995 Code)]
It shall be unlawful for any person to make or manufacture any
device such as a peashooter, slingshot or other device for the slinging,
shooting or otherwise propelling of any missile or object whatsoever.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale
any peashooter, slingshot or other device for the slinging, shooting
or otherwise propelling of any missile or object whatsoever.
It shall be unlawful for any person to carry or possess a peashooter,
slingshot or other device for the slinging, shooting or otherwise
propelling of any missile or object whatsoever.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use any peashooter, slingshot
or other device for the slinging, shooting or otherwise propelling
of any missile or object whatsoever.
[Amended 9-25-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-10; 8-23-2006 by Ord. No.
2006-18]
[Adopted 3-14-1973 by Ord. No. 6-1973 (Ch. 146, Art. I, of
the 1995 Code)]
This article shall be known as the "Riverside Township Firearms
Control Ordinance of 1973."
Subject to § 208-10 hereof, the foregoing two sections of this article 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 written 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. Such permission and registration
shall be valid only:
(a)
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.
[Amended 3-28-1994 by Ord. No. 1994-4]
(b)
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.
[Amended 3-28-1994 by Ord. No. 1994-4]
(c)
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)
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.
[Amended 3-28-1994 by Ord. No. 1994-4]
C.
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 § 208-9A or B of this article 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 450 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 450 feet of any public or school playground or any athletic field.
[Amended 4-11-1973 by Ord. No. 6-1973]
[Amended 9-25-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-10; 8-23-2006 by Ord. No.
2006-18]
