[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Waldwick 12-8-59 as Ord. No. 8-59.]
No person, firm, corporation or association shall, within the
limits of the Borough of Waldwick, fire or discharge or permit to
be fired or discharged any gun, pistol, revolver, rifle, cannon or
firearm of any description, whether loaded with blank or full charge.
This section shall not apply to any military exercises nor to members
of a Police Department in the course of duty or while participating
in practice or exercises in connection with police duties, nor shall
this section apply to persons who shall fire or discharge a firearm
at a firing range while such range is under the supervision of a member
of the Police Department of the Borough of Waldwick. This section
shall also not apply to persons who lawfully possess or carry a firearm
while using such firearm for purposes of protection of life or property.
No person, firm, corporation or association shall, within the
limits of the Borough of Waldwick, fire or discharge or permit to
be fired or discharged any gun, pistol, revolver, rifle, cannon or
implement or apparatus of any kind which uses as a propelling force
a spring or air and which is capable of ejecting a missile with sufficient
force to injure the person.
No person, firm, corporation or association shall, within the
limits of the Borough of Waldwick, fire or discharge or permit to
be fired or discharged any rocket, implement, apparatus or contrivance
loaded with explosive or combustible material unless permission to
do so shall first be had and obtained from the Mayor and Council.
This section shall not apply to be explosion of dynamite or other
similar material used for blasting purposes in connection with construction
work, or to the proper use of signal flares and railroad track torpedoes.
See Chapter 1:14.1.
An ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to Regulate the Use of Firearms,
Fireworks and Explosives," passed and approved March 10, 1936, and
all other ordinances inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect when passed and published as
required by law.
