Town of North Reading, MA
chevron_right
2023-03-06
info
chevron_right
The Code
chevron_right
Part I: General Bylaws
chevron_right
Chapter 68 Firearms
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: General Bylaws
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration
- Ch 9 Aircraft, Unmanned
- Ch 11 Alarm Systems
- Ch 14 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 18 Ambulance Service
- Ch 23 Animals
- Ch 25 Assessments
- Ch 31 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 37 Carnivals, Fairs and Exhibitions
- Ch 41 Cemeteries
- Ch 57 Emergency Management
- Ch 60 Environmental Hazards
- Ch 62 Excavations
- Ch 66 Finance
- Ch 68 Firearms
- § 68-1 Discharge of firearms prohibited; exceptions.
- § 68-2 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 80 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 85 Historic District
- Ch 90 (Reserved)
- Ch 98 Land Utilization Committee
- Ch 104 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 107 Marihuana
- Ch 110 Martin's Pond
- Ch 116 Mobile Homes
- Ch 128 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 131 Peddlers, Solicitors and Transient Vendors
- Ch 139 (Reserved)
- Ch 143 Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers
- Ch 145 Sex Offenders
- Ch 147 Social Host Responsibility
- Ch 149 Soil Removal
- Ch 152 Solid Waste
- Ch 156 Storm Water Management
- Ch 158 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 163 Swimming Pools
- Ch 169 Tobacco Products
- Ch 172 Town Meeting
- Ch 181 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 185 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 191 Water
- Ch 196 Wetlands
- Ch 198 Youth Services Committee
- Part II: Zoning Bylaw
- Ch 200 Zoning
- Part III: Regulations
- Ch 300 General Provisions
- Ch 340 Site Plan Review
- Ch 350 Subdivision of Land
- Appendix
- Ch 500 Acts Accepted by Town
- Ch 525 Special Acts
- Ch 550 Vocational Regional School District Agreement
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Special Town Meeting of the Town
of North Reading 3-21-1955 by Art. 5, approved 4-5-1955, as amended 10-17-1977 ATM by Art. 15, approved 2-28-1978, and 10-2-1989 ATM by Art.
9, approved 12-7-1989. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall, except as authorized or required by law, fire or discharge any gun, fowling piece or other firearms, or an air rifle in the Town of North Reading, but provisions of this section shall not apply to the Chief of Police or other police officers in the performance of their duties nor to the use of such weapons at any military exercises or any established rifle range or in the lawful defense of the person, family, or property of any citizens nor to the rights and privileges of an owner or lessee of land as set forth in Chapter 131, Section 37 of the General Laws.
Whoever violates the provisions of § 68-1 shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the 1st offense and fifty dollars ($50.00) for 2nd and subsequent offenses.
