(A) No person shall carry a concealed deadly weapon without a state license or other lawful authorization established under the provisions of W. Va. Code 61-7-4 et seq.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to carry on or about his or her person any deadly weapon at any type of function, regardless of sponsor, that is held on city property including, but not limited to, City Hall, Council Chambers, Municipal Court, City Community Center, City Park, Ridenour Lake, city children’s park, city pool, public library or the city’s Public Works Department.
(C) Security measures necessary to carry out the intent of division (B) above shall be implemented to ensure the public safety.
(D) (1) If a person voluntarily and peaceably delivers and abandons to the Police Department any weapon as defined in § 133.01, such delivery shall preclude the arrest and prosecution of such person on a charge of violating any provision of this chapter with respect to the weapon voluntarily delivered. Delivery under this section may be made at the headquarters of the Police Department or by summoning a police officer to the person’s residence or place of business. Every weapon to be delivered and abandoned to the Police Department under this division (D)(1) shall be unloaded and securely wrapped in a package and, in the case of delivery to the police headquarters, the package shall be carried in open view. No person who delivers and abandons a weapon under this division (D)(1) shall be required to furnish identification, photographs or fingerprints. No amount of money shall be paid for any weapon delivered or abandoned under this division (D)(1).
(2) Whenever any weapon is surrendered under this division (D), the Police Department shall inquire of all law enforcement agencies whether such weapon is needed as evidence and if the same is not needed as evidence, it shall be destroyed.
(E) All weapons ordered confiscated by the court under the provisions of § 133.99(B) and all weapons received by the Police Department under and by virtue of division (D) above shall be held and identified as to owner, where possible, by the Police Department for a period of five years prior to their being destroyed.
(F) Nothing in this section shall be construed or applied to necessarily require or excuse noncompliance with any provision of the laws of the state or to the laws of the United States. This chapter and the penalties proscribed for violation hereof shall not supersede, but shall supplement all statutes of the state or of the United States in which similar conduct may be prohibited or regulated.
(Prior Code, § 545.02) (Ord. 03-01, passed 1-21-2003) Penalty, see § 133.99