549.08  DISCHARGING FIREARMS.
   (a)   No person shall discharge any firearm, pellet gun or B.B. gun of whatever kind, air gun, spring gun, sling shot, crossbow or an arrow from a bow within the Village.  No person shall discharge any firearm, pellet gun, B.B. gun, air gun, spring gun, sling shot, crossbow or arrow from a bow, or any other weapon within the Village of New Washington, except the following:
      (1)   Those who are legally authorized to do so by the laws of the State of Ohio or by the legislative body of any governmental agency or by law enforcement duties while on duty carrying out law enforcement duties within the Village of New Washington;
      (2)   Regularly organized gun clubs shooting on grounds provided for that purpose; and
      (3)   The owners of agricultural lands within the Village limits when discharging is for sport hunting purposes or varmint control in compliance with the hunting laws of the State of Ohio.
         (Ord. 932.  Passed 11-23-09.)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section by the discharge of a firearm of whatsoever kind within the Village is guilty of a fourth degree misdemeanor for a first offense and of a third degree misdemeanor for any such subsequent offense.
(Ord. 653.  Passed 10-10-88.)