HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-067ORDINANCE NO. NS-67 ADDING NEW SECTION~ TO 'A'~ ~ANTA ANA
M1~NICIPAL CODE PROHIBITING DISCNARGE OF WEAPON~ IN THE CITY.
The City Council of the City of Santa Aha does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That two new sections, numbered 3510 and 3511, be and the
same are hereby added to Chapter 5, Article III, of the Santa Aha Municipal
Code to read as follows:
"S~CTION 3510. DISCHARGE OF F~.
"No person in the City, except in self-defense, shall discharge
or cause or allow the discharge of any rifle, shotgun, pistol, re-
volver or any other £iKearms, or any airgun, gas gun or any other
weapon which emits a projectile as a result of pressure at the breech
unless said person has first obtained permission in writing from the
Chief of Police, and then only in com~liance with all the conditions
contained in said permission. This Section does not apply to any
peace officer in the discharge of his duty.
"SECTION 3511. NUISANCE~: DESTRUCTION OF WEAPONS.
,,Any weapon used in violation of Section 3510 of this Code is
hereby declared to be a nuisance and the same shall be taken from
the person violating said Section 3510 and surrendered to the Chief
of Police of the City, who $h~11 report possession of the same to the
City Council on June first of each year. The City Council may order
any of such weapons disposed of as provided for by Section 12028 of
the California penal Code or may order any of such weapons to be sold
at public auction by a City employee designated, and after such notice
as the City Council may direct to be given and the proceeds therefrom
to be deposited in the General Fund of the City."
~ECTION 2. The Clerk of the Council ~al 1 certify to the passage of
this Ordinance and shall cause the s~-~ to be published within 15 days after
its adoption in one issue of the Santa Ama Independent, the Official newspaper
of the City. This Ordinance shall take effect 30 days from and after the date
of its final adoption.
PASSED AND ADO~fmu by the City Council of the City of Santa Aha at
its regular meeting held on the 1st day of November , 1954.
AT.T: ~
CLE~ OF ','ms COUNCIL
STATE OF C~r,vwORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
c~ OF SA~A ANA )
NOES, COUNCII~EN: None
ABSENT~ COUNC~: None
the following vote, to-wit:
AYES~ COUNC~:
William Jerome, J. L. McBride, Thomas F. Larsen,
Milford %%~. Dahl, Courtney R. Chandler
CLERK OF ','n~ COUNCIL
I~ EBMA ~LER, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council of
the City of Santa Aha, California; that the foregoing Ordinance was regularly
introduced at the regular meeting of said City Council held on
the 18th day of October , 1954, and was read to said Council at
its regular meeting held on the 1st day of November ,
1954, and was at said meeting regularly passed ami adopted by said Council by