549.01 Definitions.
549.02 Carrying concealed weapons.
549.03 Using weapons while intoxicated.
549.04 Improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle.
549.05 Sale, possession and use of dangerous toys.
549.051 Sale, possession and use of stun guns. (Repealed)
549.06 Failure to secure dangerous ordnance.
549.07 Unlawful transactions in weapons.
549.08 Improperly furnishing firearms to a minor. (Repealed)
549.09 Sale of explosives to minors. (Repealed)
549.10 Fireworks.
549.11 Fireworks display permits. (Repealed)
549.12 Discharging firearms.
549.121 Possessing replica firearm in school.
549.13 License to sell weapons. (Repealed)
549.14 License application. (Repealed)
549.15 Sales report. (Repealed)
549.16 License revocation. (Repealed)
549.17 Permit to purchase weapons; application. (Repealed)
549.18 Issuance of permit. (Repealed)
549.19 Pocket knives. (Repealed)
549.20 Shipment and display of fireworks.
549.21 Weapons dealer’s license. (Repealed)
549.22 Application for weapons license. (Repealed)
549.23 Business and security regulations. (Repealed)
549.24 Weapons dealer’s license revocation. (Repealed)
549.25 Registration of handguns. (Repealed)
549.26 Domestic relations abuse prevention; weapons surrender. (Repealed)
549.27 Failure to secure weapons; minors and incompetent persons. (Repealed)
549.28 Stolen or lost handguns; reports. (Repealed)
549.29 Weapons confiscated. (Repealed)
549.98 Exemptions.
549.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
License or permit to possess dangerous ordnance - see Ohio R. C. 2923.18
Hunting prohibited - see GEN. OFF. 505.11
Reporting gunshot and stab wounds - see GEN. OFF. 525.05(b)
Property destruction by tear gas device, etc. - see GEN. OFF. 541.04
As used in this chapter;
(a) “Automatic firearm” means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger.
(b) “Ballistic knife” means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
(c) “Chief of Police” means the Chief of the Lakewood Division of Police or his designee.
(d) “Commercial District” is established to provide for commercial uses that generally require independent, free-standing buildings, larger parking areas, and may have unique traffic patterns because of such factors as drive-in facilities.
(e) “Dangerous ordnance” means any of the following, except as provided in subsection (f) hereof:
(1) Any automatic or sawed-off firearm, zip-gun or ballistic knife;
(2) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
(3) Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, PETN, cyclonite, TNT, picric acid and other high explosives, amatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite, pecretol, cyclotol, and other high explosive compositions; plastic explosives; dynamite, blasting gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium nitrate, liquid-oxygen blasting explosives, blasting powder and other blasting agents; and any other explosive substance having sufficient brisance or power to be particularly suitable for use as military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying, excavating or demolitions;
(4) Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes, and the ammunition for that weapon;
(5) Any firearm muffler or suppressor;
(6) Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner for use in converting any firearm or other device into a dangerous ordnance.
(f) “Dangerous ordnance” does not include any of the following:
(1) Exemptions covered by Section 549.98;
(2) Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammunition for that weapon, and regardless of its actual age, which employs a percussion cap or other obsolete ignition system, or that is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
(3) Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purposes, including a military weapon as used or as modified and the ammunition for that weapon, unless the firearm is an automatic or sawed-off firearm;
(4) Any cannon or other artillery piece which, regardless of its actual age, is of a type in accepted use prior to 1887, has no mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or other system for absorbing recoil and returning the tube into battery without displacing the carriage, and is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
(5) Black powder, priming quills and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used to fire a cannon of a type defined in paragraph (f)(4) hereof during displays, celebrations, organized matches or shoots, and target practice, and smokeless and black powder, primers, and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used as a pro-pellant or ignition device in small-arms or small-arms ammunition;
(6) Dangerous ordnance which is inoperable or inert and cannot readily be rendered operable or activated, and which is kept as a trophy, souvenir, curio or museum piece;
(7) Any device that is expressly excepted from the definition of a destructive device pursuant to the “Gun Control Act of 1968,” 82 Stat. 1213, 18 U.S.C. 921(A)(4), as amended and regulations issued under that Act.
(g) “Deadly weapon” means any instrument, device, or thing capable of inflicting death, and designed or specially adapted for use as a weapon, or possessed, carried or used as a weapon.
(h) “Dealer” means any person, firm or corporation licensed by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms engaged in the business of selling or trading handguns at wholesale or retail within the limits of the City, whether as the principle business of such person, firm or corporation, or in addition thereto.
(i) “Explosive device” means any device designed or specially adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of an explosion, and consisting of an explosive substance or agency and a means to detonate it. “Explosive device” includes, without limitation, any bomb, any explosive demolition device, any blasting cap or detonator containing an explosive charge, and any pressure vessel that has been knowingly tampered with or arranged so as to explode.
(j) “Firearm” means any deadly weapon capable of expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explosive or combustible propellant. “Firearm” includes an unloaded firearm and any firearm which is inoperable but which can readily be rendered operable.
(k) “Handgun” means any of the following:
(1) Any firearm that has short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand;
(2) Any combination of parts from which a firearm of a type described in division (k)(l) can be assembled.
(1) “Incendiary device” means any firebomb and any device designed or specially adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of fire and consisting of an incendiary substance or agency and a means to ignite it.
(m) “Nonresident” means any person who does not have a place of residence within the limits of the City of Lakewood.
(n) “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, club or society, including wholesale and retain gun dealers.
(o) “Registration receipt” means a handgun registration receipt issued pursuant to Section 549.25.
(p) “Resident” means any person who has a place of residence within the limits of the City of Lakewood.
(q) “Retail District” is established to provide standards for the continued operation of small commercial establishments. This district would permit those retail uses that typically locate side by side to create a shopping environment that encourages pedestrian interaction between stores and where stores thrive on being adjacent to other retail uses.
(r) “Rifle” means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
(s) “Sawed-off firearm” means a shotgun with a barrel less than eighteen inches long, or a rifle with a barrel less than sixteen inches long, or a shotgun or rifle less than twenty-six inches long overall.
(t) “Semi-automatic firearm” means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a single cartridge and automatically chamber a succeeding cartridge ready to fire, with a single function of the trigger.
(u) “Shotgun” means a firearm, whether or not it is intended to be fired from the shoulder, that is designed or redesigned, made or remade, to fire a fixed shotgun shell.
(v) “Stun gun” means any electronic instrument, device or thing which produces, emits or discharges any current, plus, volt or charge of electricity, regardless of voltage, amperage, or frequency, and which is designed or specifically adapted to stun, daze, traumatize, incapacitate or paralyze a human being.
(w) “Zip-gun” means any of the following:
(1) Any firearm of crude and extemporized manufacture;
(2) Any device, including, without limitation, a starter's pistol, not designed as a firearm, but which is specially adapted for use as a firearm;
(3) Any industrial tool, signaling device or safety device, not designed as a firearm, but which as designed is capable of use as such, when possessed, carried or used as a firearm.
(Ord. 06-19. Passed 7-1-19.)
(a) No person shall knowingly carry or have, concealed on the person's person or concealed ready at hand, any of the following:
(1) A deadly weapon other than a handgun;
(2) A handgun other than a dangerous ordnance;
(3) A dangerous ordnance.
(b) No person who has been issued a concealed handgun license shall do any of the following:
(1) If the person is stopped for a law enforcement purpose and is carrying a concealed handgun, fail to promptly inform any law enforcement officer who approaches the person after the person has been stopped that the person has been issued a concealed handgun license and that the person then is carrying a concealed handgun;
(2) If the person is stopped for a law enforcement purpose and is carrying a concealed handgun, knowingly fail to keep the person's hands in plain sight at any time after any law enforcement officer begins approaching the person while stopped and before the law enforcement officer leaves, unless the failure is pursuant to and in accordance with directions given by a law enforcement officer;
(3) If the person is stopped for a law enforcement purpose, if the person is carrying a concealed handgun, and if the person is approached by any law enforcement officer while stopped, knowingly remove or attempt to remove the loaded handgun from the holster, pocket, or other place in which the person is carrying it, knowingly grasp or hold the loaded handgun, or knowingly have contact with the loaded handgun by touching it with the person's hands or fingers at any time after the law enforcement officer begins approaching and before the law enforcement officer leaves, unless the person removes, attempts to remove, grasps, holds, or has contact with the loaded handgun pursuant to and in accordance with directions given by the law enforcement officer;
(4) If the person is stopped for a law enforcement purpose and is carrying a concealed handgun, knowingly disregard or fail to comply with any lawful order of any law enforcement officer given while the person is stopped, including, but not limited to, a specific order to the person to keep the person's hands in plain sight.
(c) (1) This section does not apply to any of the following:
A. An officer, agent, or employee of this or any other state or the United States, or to a law enforcement officer, who is authorized to carry concealed weapons or dangerous ordnance or is authorized to carry handguns and is acting within the scope of the officer's, agent's, or employee's duties;
B. Any person who is employed in this state, who is authorized to carry concealed weapons or dangerous ordnance or is authorized to carry handguns, and who is subject to and in compliance with the requirements of Ohio R.C. 109.801, unless the appointing authority of the person has expressly specified that the exemption provided in division (c)(1)B. of this section does not apply to the person;
C. A person's transportation or storage of a firearm, other than a firearm described in Ohio R.C. 2923.11 (g) to (m), in a motor vehicle for any lawful purpose if the firearm is not on the actor's person;
D. A person's storage or possession of a firearm, other than a firearm described in Ohio R.C. 2923.11(g) to (m), in the actor's own home for any lawful purpose.
(2) Division (a)(2) of this section does not apply to any person who, at the time of the alleged carrying or possession of a handgun, either is carrying a valid concealed handgun license or is an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States and is carrying a valid military identification card and documentation of successful completion of firearms training that meets or exceeds the training requirements described in Ohio R.C. 2923.125(G)(1), unless the person knowingly is in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B).
(d) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under division (a)(l) of this section of carrying or having control of a weapon other than a handgun and other than a dangerous ordnance that the actor was not otherwise prohibited by law from having the weapon and that any of the following applies:
(1) The weapon was carried or kept ready at hand by the actor for defensive purposes while the actor was engaged in or was going to or from the actor's lawful business or occupation, which business or occupation was of a character or was necessarily carried on in a manner or at a time or place as to render the actor particularly susceptible to criminal attack, such as would justify a prudent person in going armed.
(2) The weapon was carried or kept ready at hand by the actor for defensive purposes while the actor was engaged in a lawful activity and had reasonable cause to fear a criminal attack upon the actor, a member of the actor's family, or the actor's home, such as would justify a prudent person in going armed.
(3) The weapon was carried or kept ready at hand by the actor for any lawful purpose and while in the actor's own home.
(e) No person who is charged with a violation of this section shall be required to obtain a concealed handgun license as a condition for the dismissal of the charge.
(f) (1) Whoever violates this section is guilty of carrying concealed weapons. Except as otherwise provided in this division or divisions (f)(2), (6), and (7) of this section, carrying concealed weapons in violation of division (a) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree. Except as otherwise provided in this division or divisions (f)(2) , (6), and (7) of this section, if the offender previously has been convicted of a violation of this section or of any offense of violence, if the weapon involved is a firearm that is either loaded or for which the offender has ammunition ready at hand, or if the weapon involved is dangerous ordnance, carrying concealed weapons in violation of division (a) of this section is a felony of the fourth degree. Except as otherwise provided in divisions (f)(2) and (6) of this section, if the offense is committed aboard an aircraft, or with purpose to carry a concealed weapon aboard an aircraft, regardless of the weapon involved, carrying concealed weapons in violation of division (a) of this section is a felony of the third degree.
(2) Except as provided in division (f)(6) of this section, if a person being arrested for a violation of division (a)(2) of this section promptly produces a valid concealed handgun license, and if at the time of the violation the person was not knowingly in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B), the officer shall not arrest the person for a violation of that division. If the person is not able to promptly produce any concealed handgun license and if the person is not in a place described in that section, the officer may arrest the person for a violation of that division, and the offender shall be punished as follows:
A. The offender shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor if both of the following apply:
1. Within ten days after the arrest, the offender presents a concealed handgun license, which license was valid at the time of the arrest to the law enforcement agency that employs the arresting officer.
2. At the time of the arrest, the offender was not knowingly in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B).
B. The offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500.00) if all of the following apply:
1. The offender previously had been issued a concealed handgun license, and that license expired within the two years immediately preceding the arrest.
2. Within forty-five days after the arrest, the offender presents a concealed handgun license to the law enforcement agency that employed the arresting officer, and the offender waives in writing the offender's right to a speedy trial on the charge of the violation that is provided in Ohio R.C. 2945.71.
3. At the time of the commission of the offense, the offender was not knowingly in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B).
C. If divisions (f)(2)A. and B. and (f)(6) of this section do not apply, the offender shall be punished under division (f)(l) or (7) of this section.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this division, carrying concealed weapons in violation of division (b)(l) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree, and, in addition to any other penalty or sanction imposed for a violation of division (b)(l) of this section, the offender's concealed handgun license shall be suspended pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2923.128(A)(2). If, at the time of the stop of the offender for a law enforcement purpose that was the basis of the violation, any law enforcement officer involved with the stop had actual knowledge that the offender has been issued a concealed handgun license, carrying concealed weapons in violation of division (b)(l) of this section is a minor misdemeanor, and the offender's concealed handgun license shall not be suspended pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2923.128(A)(2).
(4) Carrying concealed weapons in violation of division (b)(2) or (4) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree or, if the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (b)(2) or (4) of this section, a felony of the fifth degree. In addition to any other penalty or sanction imposed for a misdemeanor violation of division (b)(2) or (4) of this section, the offender's concealed handgun license shall be suspended pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2923.128(A)(2).
(5) Carrying concealed weapons in violation of division (b)(3) of this section is a felony of the fifth degree.
(6) If a person being arrested for a violation of division (a)(2) of this section is an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States and is carrying a valid military identification card and documentation of successful completion of firearms training that meets or exceeds the training requirements described in Ohio R.C. 2923.125(G)(1), and if at the time of the violation the person was not knowingly in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B), the officer shall not arrest the person for a violation of that division. If the person is not able to promptly produce a valid military identification card and documentation of successful completion of firearms training that meets or exceeds the training requirements described in Ohio R.C. 2923.125(G)(1) and if the person is not in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B), the officer shall issue a citation and the offender shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). The citation shall be automatically dismissed and the civil penalty shall not be assessed if both of the following apply:
A. Within ten days after the issuance of the citation, the offender presents a valid military identification card and documentation of successful completion of firearms training that meets or exceeds the training requirements described in Ohio R.C. 2923.125(G)(1), which were both valid at the time of the issuance of the citation to the law enforcement agency that employs the citing officer.
B. At the time of the citation, the offender was not knowingly in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B).
(7) If a person being arrested for a violation of division (a)(2) of this section is knowingly in a place described in Ohio R.C. 2923.126(B)(5) and is not authorized to carry a handgun or have a handgun concealed on the person's person or concealed ready at hand under that division, the penalty shall be as follows:
A. Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the person produces a valid concealed handgun license within ten days after the arrest and has not previously been convicted or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (a)(2) of this section, the person is guilty of a minor misdemeanor;
B. Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the person has previously been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (a)(2) of this section, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree;
C. Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the person has previously been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two violations of division (a)(2) of this section, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree;
D. Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the person has previously been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of division (a)(2) of this section, or convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense of violence, if the weapon involved is a firearm that is either loaded or for which the offender has ammunition ready at hand, or if the weapon involved is a dangerous ordnance, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(g) If a law enforcement officer stops a person to question the person regarding a possible violation of this section, for a traffic stop, or for any other law enforcement purpose, if the person surrenders a firearm to the officer, either voluntarily or pursuant to a request or demand of the officer, and if the officer does not charge the person with a violation of this section or arrest the person for any offense, the person is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm, and the firearm is not contraband, the officer shall return the firearm to the person at the termination of the stop. If a court orders a law enforcement officer to return a firearm to a person pursuant to the requirement set forth in this division, Ohio R.C. 2923.163(B) applies.
(h) For purposes of this section, "deadly weapon" or "weapon" does not include any knife, razor, or cutting instrument if the instrument was not used as a weapon.
(Ord. 18-2021. Passed 6-21-21.)
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