[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Edgewater Park as Title 9, Ch. 20, of the 1998 Township Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as the "Edgewater Park Township
Firearms Control Ordinance of 1974."
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 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; and
(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 Chief of Police of
the Township and such completed forms shall have been delivered to
the Police Department; and
(b)
During such times as such individual person or member wears conspicuously
on his person such identifying card, badge or tag as the Chief of
Police may from time to time prescribe and issue.
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.
No person excepted under § 518-3A or B shall fire or discharge any gun, rifle, pistol or other firearm within 500 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 500 feet of any public or school playground or any athletic field.
