549.11 POINTING AND DISCHARGING FIREARMS; PERMIT.

   (a)    No person shall intentionally and without malice, point or aim a firearm at or toward another or discharge a firearm so pointed or aimed, or maim or injure a person by the discharge or a firearm so pointed or aimed.

   No person shall discharge any firearm within the Municipality, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof.

   This section does not extend to cases in which firearms are used in self-defense, in the discharge of official duty or in justifiable homicide.

   (b)    It shall be lawful for any club or association, consisting of at least twenty members, to hold shooting matches in the City on grounds owned or leased by such club or association, providing a permit is first obtained from the Safety-Service Director, who shall first ascertain that the following provisions of such permit shall be agreed to by such applicant and enforced.

      (1)    Date, time and place of such match shall be designated.

      (2)    Shotguns only, using no shot of a larger caliber than No. 6, shall be used.

      (3)    Targets shall be inanimate, whether stationary or flying.

      (4)    Grounds used for matches shall have a one-quarter of a mile clear field of fire in the line of fire. Such clear field shall be void of any inhabited dwelling or animate object.

      (5)    The Safety-Service Director shall further make a determination that such match shall not be detrimental to the public peace, health or safety of the community, before issuing such permit.

      (6)    Violation of any of the foregoing shall be cause for revocation of such permit by the Safety-Service Director at any time.

         (Ord. 66-53. Passed 9-27-66.)

   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.