It shall henceforth be unlawful for any person to fire and discharge any firearm within the corporate limits of the city, without regard to whether said firing and discharging takes place upon public property or private property except for the discharge of a firearm or air gun at a sport shooting range as provided in V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 229.001. For the purpose of this article, the term "firearm" means any rifle, shotgun, pistol, derringer, machine gun, mortar or other weapon designed to detonate a quantity of gun powder or other explosive chemical substance, regardless of whether said gun powder or other explosive chemical substance hurls a projectile. Every person violating this article shall, upon conviction, be punished according to the penalty in Section 1-13. Each act of firing and discharging any firearm as herein prohibited shall be deemed to be a separate offense.
(Ordinance 61, § 1, adopted 4/13/1970)
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
means any device designed for, used, as or capable of propelling
a pellet or BB or other projectile through the air by the use of compressed
air.
(Ordinance 111, art. I, adopted 7/14/1980)
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any air-rifle,
BB gun, or air-pistol, as defined above, within the city limits and
such discharge of said devices is prohibited and such discharge shall
be unlawful.
(Ordinance 111, art. II, adopted 7/14/1980)
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this division shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished according to the general penalty found in section 1-13.
(Ordinance 111, art. III, adopted 7/14/1980)
