[HISTORY: Adopted by the Cayuga County Legislature 6-20-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The County Legislature, in order to assure the proper protection, health, safety and welfare of persons lawfully in the public buildings of the County of Cayuga, and in order to insure the performance of essential governmental functions by County employees without threat or intimidation to such employees or others, finds it to be in the public interest to prohibit the display or transport of any weapon in certain public buildings of the County of Cayuga.
When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning herein ascribed to them:
CARRY or DISPLAY
The possession or transport by any person of a weapon as hereinafter defined, except where such possession or transportation is consistent with an authorized activity or function at the specific County building where such possession occurs.
PERSON
Any person except:
A. 
A police officer (including any state or federal law enforcement officer);
B. 
Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff;
C. 
Security officer in the employ of the County of Cayuga or the New York State Office of Court Administration;
D. 
Judges;
E. 
District Attorney or his/her staff;
F. 
Peace officer or correction officer while present on duty assignment in uniform.
PUBLIC BUILDING
The following buildings or property owned, occupied or operated by the County of Cayuga:
A. 
County Courthouse;
B. 
Cayuga County Office Building;
C. 
Historic Old Post Office (across from County Court House);
D. 
Nursing home on County House Road in the Town of Sennett;
E. 
Sheriff's Office and County Jail on County House Road in the Town of Sennett;
F. 
Former Sheriff's Office and County Jail on Court Street in the City Auburn;
G. 
Emerson Park in the Town of Owasco;
H. 
Any other County-operated public building.
WEAPON
Any firearm, electronic dart gun, gravity knife, switchblade knife, cane sword, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, metal knuckles, sand bag, chuka stick, shirken, sandclub, slingshot, dagger, dangerous knife, dirk, razor, stiletto, imitation pistol, explosives, or any other dangerous or deadly instrument or weapon.
A. 
No person shall carry or display any weapon in any public building owned, occupied or operated by the County of Cayuga.
B. 
No person who carries or displays a weapon in any public building shall refuse to surrender such weapon at the request of any police officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff, or duly authorized security officer of the County of Cayuga. Any legal weapon so surrendered shall be returned to such person upon his or her departure from the public building.
C. 
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to authorize the possession of any weapon, the possession of which is made unlawful by any other law or statute.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of § 165-3 of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation and may be punished by a fine not to exceed $100 for the first violation. Subsequent violations may be punished by a fine of up to $250 or jail up to 15 days, or both.
If any part or provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part or provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this chapter or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances.