[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Ithaca as Art.
III of Ch. 65 of the 1974 Municipal Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person shall discharge any firearm, air gun, spring gun, slingshot or other instrument or weapon within the city except in self-defense or in the discharge of official duty or during a memorial service or veteran's funeral or at an indoor rifle range operated under the supervision, guidance and instruction of a duly commissioned officer of one of the Armed Forces, including the National Guard and reserve forces, or a duly qualified adult citizen of the United States who has been granted a certificate as an instructor of small arms practice issued by one of the Armed Forces of the United States, by the Adjutant General of the state or by the National Rifle Association of America, except as hereinafter provided in § 219-2.
[Amended 6-2-1982 by Ord. No. 82-3]
A.
Prohibited.
(1)
No person shall hunt, pursue or kill with a gun or firearm
any wild animals, fowl or birds or engage in hunting within the city.
(2)
No person shall set, take or attempt to take any animal
by means of a trap of the steel-jaw leg-hold type at any place in the city.
(3)
No person shall set, take or attempt to take any animal
by means of a trap of a quick-kill or killer type at any place in the city
except within any of the waterways wherein such traps shall be lawful, provided
that in no event shall such traps be permitted in the following waterways:
(a)
In Fall Creek between the falls on the east and New York
State Route 13 on the northwest.
(b)
In Cascadilla Creek between the falls on the east and
New York State Route 13 on the northwest.
(c)
In Six Mile Creek between the city's southern boundary
on the southeast and Meadow Street on the west.
B.
Exceptions.
