[Adopted as Ch. VII, Art. 3, Title 1, of the 1990 Code of
Ordinances]
It shall be unlawful for any person to beat, strike, wound,
imprison, or inflict violence on another where the circumstances show
malice; or assault another with intent to commit murder, rape, mayhem,
robbery, or larceny. Nor shall any person assault another with a lethal
weapon, instrument, or thing with intent to commit upon the person
of another any bodily injury where no considerable provocation appears
or where the circumstances of the assault show malice.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person within the Town to conceal or
carry openly about his person any deadly or dangerous weapon or instrument
including any firearm, rifle, shotgun, revolver, pistol, airgun, air
rifle, or any similar mechanism by whatever name known which is designed
to expel a projectile, or any blackjack, brass knuckles, razor, knife,
or other similar dangerous instrument.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any firearm, rifle,
shotgun, revolver, pistol, airgun, air rifle, or any similar mechanism
by whatever name known which is designed to expel a projectile through
a gun barrel by the action of any explosive, gas, compressed air,
spring, or elastic within the Town of North Brentwood, whether such
mechanism is loaded with blank or live cartridges or projectiles of
any kind. This section shall not apply to the discharge of any such
mechanism by a person in the necessary defense of his or her life
or property or by any duly authorized police officer acting in the
proper performance of his official duties.
C.
The prohibitions of this section shall not be construed to forbid
United States marshals, sheriffs, constables, and their deputies,
and any regular, special, or ex officio police officer, or any other
law enforcement officer from carrying or wearing, while on duty, such
weapons as shall be necessary in the proper discharge of duties.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or project any
stone, fireworks or missiles with a sling shot or any other instrument
in the Town of North Brentwood in any way that is likely to do harm
or injury to any person or property or in such manner as to cause
reasonable apprehension of such harm or injury.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article,
or any lawful order issued by the police in pursuance thereof, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
subject to a fine not to exceed $100, or may be confined to the county
jail for a period not to exceed 30 days, and where the offense is
of a continuing nature, each day's violation shall be deemed
a separate offense.