[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City of Absecon City 12-8-1937. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Parks, playgrounds and recreation areas — See Ch. 250.
[Amended 6-11-1981]
No hunting with guns or other firearms or firing of guns or
other firearms shall be permitted in that portion of the City of Absecon
City bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the
center line of Shore Road where the same is intersected by the dividing
line between the City of Absecon City and the Township of Galloway
and running thence southeasterly along said dividing line, a distance
of 1,350 feet more or less to an angle point in said dividing line;
thence southeasterly continuing along said dividing line, a distance
of 1,200 feet more or less; thence southwesterly, parallel with and
1,380 feet southeasterly when measured at right angles thereto from
Fourth Avenue, a distance of 4,350 feet more or less to the center
of Absecon Creek; thence northwesterly along the center line of Absecon
Creek a distance of 300 feet more or less to a point; thence southwesterly
parallel with and 400 feet easterly when measured at right angles
thereto from Burning Tree Boulevard, a distance of 3,420 feet more
or less to a point; thence southerly, parallel with and 400 feet easterly
when measured at right angles thereto from Absecon Boulevard, a distance
of 1,050 feet more or less to a point; thence northwesterly a distance
of 1,950 feet more or less to a point in the center line of the right-of-way
of the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines where the same is intersected
by the division line between the Cities of Absecon City and Pleasantville;
westwardly, southwestwardly and westwardly along said division line
between the Cities of Absecon City and Pleasantville a total distance
of 2,100 feet to the center line of Shore Road; southwestwardly along
the center line of Shore Road and in the division line between the
Cities of Absecon City and Pleasantville, 500 feet more or less to
the center line of California Avenue; northwestwardly along the center
line of California Avenue and part in the division between the Cities
of Absecon City and Pleasantville and part in the division line between
the City of Absecon City and the Township of Egg Harbor to the center
line of Fire Road; northwestwardly along the division between the
City of Absecon City and the Township of Egg Harbor to a point being
one of the corners described in the original act incorporating the
City of Absecon City; northeastwardly along the division line between
the City of Absecon City and the Townships of Egg Harbor and Galloway
to another corner as described in the original act incorporating the
City of Absecon City; southeastwardly along the division line between
the City of Absecon City and the Township of Galloway to the point
of beginning.
This chapter is deemed necessary by the Common Council because
the area described herein is too thickly populated to permit the use
of firearms without endangering the lives of persons dwelling therein.
Any person violating this chapter, upon conviction before the
Municipal Judge or other proper official, shall be subject to a fine
of not exceeding $100 or imprisonment not exceeding 10 days, or both,
for each offense, in the discretion of said Municipal Judge or other
proper official hearing said violation.
