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ORDINANCE NO. 64
AN ORDINANCEADDING CHAPTER 3 TO TITLE 4 OF
THE ATASCADERO MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED
DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS AND DANGEROUS WEAPONS
The Atascadero City Council ordains as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 3 of Title 4 of the Atascadero Municipal
' Code is added as follows:
Chapter 3. Discharge of Firearms and Dangerous Weapons
4-3.101. Definitions,
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires
a different meaning, the following' words are defined as indicated
below:
(A) Firearm Defined. Any device designed to be used as
a weapon from which is expelled a projectile by the
force of any explosion, or other_form of combustion.
(B) Dangerous Weapon Defined. Any device designed to be
used as a weapon which is capable of expelling a solid
' projectile in excess of fifty feet.
4-3.102. Exemptions: Protection of Life, Property, Predatory
Animals.
The provisions of this chapter shall not prohibit the discharge
of appropriate firearms when necessary to protect a human life or
to destroy or kill any predatory or dangerous animal while
defending oneself or another person against an immediate threat
of great bodily harm or as otherwise provided by law.
4-3.103. Discharge of Firearms
It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to willfully
discharge any firearm within the city limits except in shooting
,galleries and on pistol' or rifle ranges, the locations of which
have been approved by the Chief of Police, or as otherwise
provided by law.
4-3:104 . Misuse of Dangerous Weapons
It shall be a misdemeanor for any person under the age of
eighteen, and without the immediate supervision of a parent or
guardian or an adult designated by the minor's parent or guardian,
' to willfully fire or willfully discharge any weapon or device as
defined in this chapter within the city limits. In, no instance
may such weapons be discharged by a minor within one hundred feet
of any building or livestock without the permission of the property
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' owner.
Section 2. The City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to
be published ,once within fifteen (15) days after its passage in
the Atascadero News, a newspaper of general circulation, printed,
published and circulated in this City in accordance with Section
36933 of the Government Code; shall certify the adoption of
' this ordinance; and shall cause this ordinance and its certifica-
tion to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of this City.
1Section 3. This ordinance shall go into effect and be in
full force and effect at 12:01 on the thirty-first day after
passage.
tThe foregoing ordinance was introducedonApril 25 , 1983
and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
_ May 9, 1983
AYES: Councilmen Mackey, Molina, Stover and Wilkins
1 NOES Mayor Nelson
ABSENT: None
ROLFE NELSON, Mayor
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A.ATSESAl 1
TER., Deputy CiEy Clerk
' APPROVED AS TO FORM:
' ALLEN GRIMES, City Attorney
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
M RAY . WARDEN, City Aanager
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CERTIFICATION
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I, PATSY A. HESTER, Deputy City Clerk of the
City of Atascadero, hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and correct copy of ordinance No. 64
adopted by the Atascadero City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on May 9, 1983
rDated• May 13, 1983
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ATSY . HE T R, Deputy City Clerk
City Atascadero, California
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