HomeMy WebLinkAbout5220-06/02/2014Prepared by Carol Nemmers, Deputy City Clerk, City of Waterloo,
715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, IA 50703, (319) 291-4323.
ORDINANCE NO. 5220
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2007 CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA, BY
AMENDING SUBSECTION A, DISCHARGE OF
FIREARAMS, OF SECTION 6, DISCHARGING WEAPONS,
OF CHAPTER 2, GENERAL OFFENSES, OF TITLE 5,
POLICE REGULATIONS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO,
IOWA:
That Subsection A, Discharge of Firearms, of Section 6,
Discharging Weapons, of Chapter 2, General Offenses, of Title 5,
Police Regulations, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:
CHAPTER 2
GENERAL OFFENSE
5-2-6: DISCHARGING WEAPONS:
A. Discharge Of Firearms:
1. No person shall discharge any firearm within the
city, except peace officers in the line of duty or
peace officers using a police target range, or
airport employees of the city acting in the scope
of their employment for wildlife control; however,
the city council may, upon written application,
grant annual permits to groups, organizations or
individuals approved by the city council, allowing
the permittees to conduct trapshoots, skeetshoots
or rifle ranges in certain areas designated by the
permit and under conditions that will in no way
endanger persons or property, and under the
supervision of the permittee. Persons discharging
firearms upon the areas designated in the permit
and while under the supervision of a permittee
shall not be subject to the terms of this section.
The city council may revoke its permit at any time
at its discretion, where discharge of firearms
under a permit, in its opinion, constitutes a
nuisance or in any way endangers persons or
property.
2. Subsection A.1. of this section shall not apply to
the discharge of pistols and shotguns in the
course of hunting game on land devoted to
agricultural use, containing forty (40) acres or
more, and not closer than two hundred (200) yards
to any building inhabited by people or domestic
livestock unless the owner or tenant has given
consent and under conditions that will in no way
endanger persons or property.
Ordinance No. 5220
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3. No shotgun slugs shall be discharged within the
city, except by airport employees of the city
acting in the scope of their employment for
wildlife control.
INTRODUCED:
June
2,
2014
PASSED lst CONSIDERATION:
June
2,
2014
PASSED 2nd CONSIDERATION:
June
2,
2014
PASSED 3rd CONSIDERATION:
June
2,
2014
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of June, 2014.
Ernest G. Clark, Mayor
ATTEST:
Suzy Schaes, CMC
City Cler,
CERTIFICATE
I, Suzy Schares, City Clerk of the City of Waterloo, Iowa,
do hereby certify that the preceding is a true and complete copy
of Ordinance No. 5220 as passed and adopted by the Council of the
City of Waterloo, Iowa, on the 2nd day of June, 2014.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 2nd day of June,
2014.
SEAL uzy Sc ares, CMC
City Cl rk