(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge an air gun within the city so as to cause a projectile of any kind to issue from the gun where the air gun is discharged from over or across any public property or any property owned by a person other than the person so discharging the air gun or his/her legal guardian.
(1) AIR GUN as used herein shall be defined to include, but not be limited to the following: BB gun, pellet gun, CO2 gun, and any other gun designed to propel a solid object through space where the propellant is a compressed gas.
(2) It shall be a defense to this section that the person discharging the air gun has the consent of the owner/owners of the property/properties where the air gun is discharged from, over, and/or onto; except this defense shall not apply as to public property.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any firearm from, over, or onto any property within the city limits. FIREARMS as used herein shall be defined as any gun (other than an air gun) designed to propel a solid object through space.
(C) Provided, however, it shall not be unlawful to discharge a firearm in the city under the following circumstances:
(1) That the firearm is discharged from, over and onto a gun range designated for target shooting and where adequate precautions have been taken by the owner of the property and where said range is located so as to assure the safety of the general public. No such gun range or any part thereof shall be located within two thousand (2,000) feet of any residential structure.
(2) That the firing be from a shotgun, BB gun, pellet gun, CO2 gun or gun for pyrotechnics and that the firing be limited to the purpose of remediating a bird infestation problem that is observed by the Police Chief or his or her designee and that the discharge of the gun be only in accordance with the specific written directions of the Police Chief.
(Ord. 84-1000-02, passed 1-3-84; Am. Ord. 2007-005, passed 4-9-07) Penalty, see § 130.99