(a) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Division (a) of this section was repealed as part of the 1996 updating and revision of these Codified Ordinances because a violation of substantially equivalent State law (Ohio R.C. 2923.21) was made a felony by the Ohio General Assembly by H.B. No. 4, effective November 9, 1995.)
(b) No parent or legal guardian shall fail to prevent a minor over whom the parent or legal guardian has care from purchasing, owning, possessing, receiving or having on or about his or her person any firearm, except a handgun sold to a person under the age of twenty-one.
(c) Subject to division (d) of this section, any school official or employee who discovers a firearm upon school grounds or in a school building shall immediately notify the Chief of Police and request the assistance of the police to enforce the provisions of this section.
(d) Division (c) of this section shall not apply:
(1) To any school official or employer who has personal knowledge that the notification required by division (c) of this section has already been given with respect to a particular discovery of a particular firearm; or
(2) When the firearm is in the possession of an officer, agent or employer of this or any other state or the United States, members of the Armed Forces of the United States or the organized militia of this or any other state, or law enforcement officers, to the extent that any such person is authorized to possess a firearm and is acting within the scope of his or her duties.
(e) Whoever violates any of the provisions of division (b) of this section is guilty of improperly furnishing firearms to a minor, a misdemeanor of the first degree, and shall be subject to the penalty as provided in Section 599.02.
(f) Any school official or employer who violates any provision of division (c) of this section is guilty of failing to notify police of a firearm on school property, a misdemeanor of the first degree, and shall be subject to the penalty as provided in Section 599.02.
(Ord. 168-1992. Passed 6-15-92.)