Borough of Maywood, NJ
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2023-12-11
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Part II General Legislation
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Chapter 320 Weapons
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Borough Government
- Ch 5 Bonds and Notes
- Ch 7 Campaign Contributions
- Ch 9 Claims and Payroll
- Ch 12 Consumer Affairs, Bureau of
- Ch 15 Court, Municipal
- Ch 20 (Reserved)
- Ch 21 Emergency Service Volunteers
- Ch 23 Emergency Management Organization, Local
- Ch 24 Environmental/Legislative Action Committee
- Ch 25 Fire Department
- Ch 28 First Aid and Emergency Squad
- Ch 32 Health, Board of
- Ch 36 Historical Advisory Committee
- Ch 40 Interlocal Services
- Ch 42 Library Board
- Ch 46 Officers and Employees
- Ch 47 Organization of Government
- Ch 52 Personnel Policies
- Ch 56 Police Department
- Ch 61 Swim Pool Committee
- Ch 65 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 69 Recreation Advisory Board
- Ch 72 Recycling Advisory Committee
- Ch 79 Safety Committee
- Ch 83 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 87 Senior Citizens Advisory Committee
- Ch 89 Senior Citizens Rent Subsidies
- Ch 94 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 96 Defense and Indemnification
- General Legislation
- Ch 106 Alarm Systems
- Ch 110 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 114 Amusements
- Ch 121 Bicycles, Roller Skates, Skateboards and Scooters
- Ch 127 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 132 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 136 Buildings and Lots, Numbering of
- Ch 140 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 140A Cannabis
- Ch 141 Certificate of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 143 Circuses, Carnivals and Fairs
- Ch 145 Clean Communities Program
- Ch 148 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 153 Contractors, Licensing of
- Ch 154 Landscapers
- Ch 161 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 162 Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 163 Drug-Free and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 165 Electrical Standards
- Ch 169 Fees
- Ch 173 Brush, Hedges and Other Plant Life Near Roadways
- Ch 175 Filming
- Ch 179 Fire Prevention
- Ch 184 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 189 Fuel Oil
- Ch 193 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 194 Handbills and Circulars
- Ch 196 Handicapped Parking Spaces
- Ch 197 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 198 Heating of Dwellings
- Ch 201 Special Improvement District
- Ch 204 Junkyards, Junk Shops and Junk Dealers
- Ch 209 Land Use
- Ch 210 (Reserved)
- Ch 211 Affordable Housing
- Ch 212 Library Rules
- Ch 215 Littering
- Ch 217 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 218 Loitering and Curfew
- Ch 226 Noise
- Ch 233 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 234 Smoking on Public Property
- Ch 237 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 241 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 247 Property Maintenance
- Ch 249 Public Documents
- Ch 251 Railroad Crossings
- Ch 256 Recycling
- Ch 261 Rent Control
- Ch 263 Retail Business
- Ch 265 Sales, Special
- Ch 269 Sewers and Illicit Connections
- Ch 273 Shopping Carts
- Ch 275 Short-Term Vacation and Event Space Rentals
- Ch 281 Soil Removal and Deposit
- Ch 282 Solar Panels
- Ch 284 Stormwater Control
- Ch 286 Streetlamps
- Ch 287 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 291 Swimming Pools
- Ch 293 Tattooing and Body Piercing Parlors
- Ch 295 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 300 Tenancy Protection
- Ch 305 Towing and Storage of Vehicles
- Ch 307 Trees
- Ch 309 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 311 (Reserved)
- Ch 312 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 320 Weapons
- § 320-1 Definitions.
- § 320-2 Discharge prohibited.
- § 320-3 Exemptions.
- § 320-4 Violations and penalties.
- Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 327 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 330 Administration and Enforcement
- Ch 333 Animals
- Ch 339 Boarding- and Rooming Houses
- Ch 341 Boarding Homes for Children
- Ch 347 Buildings and Dwellings, Unfit
- Ch 353 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 359 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 361 Food Establishments, Retail
- Ch 365 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 369 Housing and Sanitation Standards
- Ch 373 Ice
- Ch 377 Laundries and Dry Cleaning
- Ch 381 Milk and Milk Products
- Ch 386 Nuisances
- Ch 391 Pollution
- Ch 397 Sewers
- Ch 401 Smoke and Obnoxious Trades
- Ch 405 Solid Waste
- Ch 410 Swimming Pools
- Ch 412 Tobacco, Sale of
- Ch 415 Water
- Ch 420 Weed Control
- Appendix
- Ch A426 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A428 Communication Facilities, Consent for
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Maywood
11-21-72.[1] Section 320-4 added at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Peace and good order — See Ch. 237.
[1]
Editor's Note: The provisions of this chapter are derived from
Ch. 16, Art. 3, of the former Revised Ordinances, adopted 11-21-72 as Ord.
No. 659.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic and
semiautomatic rifle or other firearm, as the term is commonly used, or any
gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired
or ejected any solid projectile, ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet or
any gas, vapor or other noxious thing by means of a cartridge or shell or
by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances.
It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm which is in the nature
of any air gun, spring gun or pistol, carbon dioxide or compressed air gun
or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force
is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor,
air or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet
or missile smaller than 3/8 of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force
to injure a person.
No person shall discharge any firearm, hunting arrow or dart within
the borough unless such person is actually engaged in the defense of life,
person or property.
This chapter shall not apply to police officers or others authorized
by law to carry and discharge firearms in the performance of their duties.
