[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Johnston 12-10-1979
by Ord. No. 440 as Secs. 9-1 to 9-4 of the 1979 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person, not being at the time under police or military duty, shall
discharge any rifle, gun, musket, pistol, air gun, spring gun, or other small
arms, or any contrivance armed to discharge shot, bullets, arrows, darts or
other missiles in the Town, subject however, to the following exceptions:
A.
This section shall not apply to any person who shall
discharge any of the weapons described upon land owned or occupied by him;
provided, however, that the person who shall discharge any of the described
weapons on land owned or occupied by him shall at all times be a minimum distance
of 200 yards from any occupied building or premises and a minimum distance
of 200 yards from any public highway.
B.
This section shall not apply to any person who shall
discharge any of the weapons described on land not owned or occupied by him
only by written permission of the owner or occupant of the land on which he
may shoot. Such person shall at all times carry such written permission on
his person and shall show and exhibit such written permission when requested
so to do; and provided further, that no one of the described weapons shall
be discharged within a distance of 200 yards from any occupied building or
premises and a minimum distance of 200 yards from any public highway.
No person shall discharge any rifle, gun, musket, pistol, air gun, spring
gun, or other small arms, or any contrivances armed to discharge shot, bullets,
arrows, darts or other missiles, which shall in their flight carry over or
into the land of another into which he shall not have written permission of
the owner or occupant thereof to shoot. Such written permission shall be carried
on the person at all times and shall be shown and exhibited upon request.
A.
At the request of any resident of the Town, the Town
Council may, in its discretion and with the permission of the owner or occupant
of suitable land, designate a place where target practice with firearms or
any contrivances arranged to discharge shot, bullets, arrows, darts or other
missiles, may be carried on under the restrictions set forth together with
such other circumstances, conditions, regulations and restrictions as the
Town Council shall impose.
B.
Such designation by the Town Council and such permission
of the Town Council shall be for such a period of time as in the discretion
of the Town Council may be proper and shall be subject to revocation with
or without cause by the Town Council at any time.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Chief of Police and Police Department
of the Town.
