[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Montvale 8-10-1965 by Ord. No. 489 (Ch. 51 of the 1966 Code).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt
or pursue game or wild animals with firearms or any other type of
weapon within the municipal limits of the Borough of Montvale.
Within the corporate limits of the Borough of
Montvale, no person or persons shall discharge, fire or set off any
revolver, pistol, gun, rifle, shotgun, air gun or firearm of any description
using cartridges, gunpowder, air pressure or any other explosive substance.[1]
A.
Nothing herein
contained shall be construed to extend such prohibition to law-enforcement
officers or to qualified military personnel while in the legal and
proper pursuit of their duties or to target practice in and upon a
firing range or site approved by the Chief of Police and governing
body of the Borough of Montvale.
An approved rifle, pistol or target-practice
range as herein used means any place approved by the governing body
and the Chief of Police of the Borough of Montvale as a target or
practice range and not open for use by the public, and in addition
thereto any place mentioned by the Borough for use by its regular
auxiliary or special police or for members of its civil defense unit.
A.
No person shall
participate in such target practice or shall discharge any revolver,
pistol, gun, rifle, shotgun, air gun or firearm of any description
using cartridges, air pressure or any other explosive substance unless
he does so at an approved target-practice range or site.
A person desiring the right to participate in
target practice on an approved target-practice range or site shall
apply for a special permit to the Chief of Police or person authorized
to act as such. The application shall be on a form provided by the
Chief.
A.
Upon approval
of the application by the Chief of Police or, in the case of an appeal,
by the Police Committee of the governing body, a permit shall be issued
by the Borough Clerk. This permit shall be valid for one year from
the date of issuance, which shall allow the holder to use the permit
and to discharge the firearms only at times and places therein indicated
and under the conditions prescribed. The use thereof at any time or
place under conditions not specifically authorized is hereby declared
to be unlawful and a violation of this chapter.
The governing body of the Borough of Montvale
may promulgate and enforce safety regulations and restrict the use
of an approved target-practice range or site and such rifle, pistol
or target-practice range as may be established for the use of regular,
auxiliary or special police and members of the civil defense unit.
The Chief of Police, the Police Committee or
the governing body may at any time and for any reason revoke the permit
issued to any person or persons allowing the holder thereof to discharge
firearms on an approved target-practice range or site. The applicant
may appeal the decision of the Chief of Police to the Police Committee
of the Council within five days of notice of the action of the Chief
or person acting as such.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Should any action, provision or part of this
chapter be held illegal or unconstitutional, the same shall not affect
any other section, provision or part but the same shall be severable
of the rest of this chapter and shall remain in full force and effect.
All valid ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter be and the same are
hereby repealed.
This chapter shall take effect after final passage
and final publication in the manner required by law.
