PERSON. Any natural individual, firm, partnership, trust, estate, club, association, or corporation. As applied to partnerships or associations, the word includes the partners or members thereof. As applied to corporations, it includes the officers, agents, or employees thereof who are responsible for the act referred to.
WEAPON. Any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death, great bodily harm, or substantial bodily harm; or any other device or instrumentality which, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death, great bodily harm, or substantial bodily harm, or the reasonable and immediate fear thereof.
(Ord. 365, passed 5-15-2024)
(A) No person shall fire off, discharge or explode any weapon or use any weapon against another, or attempt to engage in any such conduct, except when done in the lawful self defense of person, property, home, or family, or in the necessary enforcement of law, or for trap, skeet, or target shooting on premises owned or controlled by any duly incorporated social organization, or any licensed range for the purpose of target practice, or when ordered by military or police authority.
(B) For the purposes of this section, whoever, with the intent to fire off, discharge or explode any weapon or use any weapon against another, does an act which is a substantial step toward, and more than preparation for, the completed crime is guilty of an attempt to engage in such conduct.
(Ord. 365, passed 5-15-2024)