City of Monessen, PA
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2021-10-11
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 213 Firearms and Weapons
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Authorities, Municipal
- Ch 12 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 17 City Council
- Ch 20 Claims, Municipal
- Ch 23 Contracts
- Ch 28 Departmental Organization
- Ch 32 Equitable Contracting
- Ch 39 Fire Department
- Ch 45 Fiscal Affairs
- Ch 47 Funds
- Ch 51 Intergovernmental Cooperation
- Ch 56 Local Government Investment Trust
- Ch 62 Master Plan Conference
- Ch 68 Officers and Employees
- Ch 74 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 80 Personnel Policies and Benefits
- Ch 83 Police Department
- Ch 86 Property, Public
- Ch 89 Purchasing
- Ch 93 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 98 Seal
- Ch 104 Social Security
- Ch 110 Vehicles, City-Owned
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 117 Alarms
- Ch 122 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 126 Amusements and Amusement Devices
- Ch 130 Animals
- Ch 135 Assemblies, Mass Public
- Ch 137 Attorney Fees and Collection Procedures
- Ch 141 Bicycles
- Ch 147 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 153 (Reserved)
- Ch 158 (Reserved)
- Ch 164 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 167 Outdoor Burning
- Ch 170 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 171 Code and Ordinance Compliance
- Ch 172 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 173 Contractors and Vendors
- Ch 174 Credit and Debit Card Payments
- Ch 175 Curfew
- Ch 182 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 187 Dumping
- Ch 193 Electrical Standards
- Ch 195 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 196 Emergency Response Expenses, Reimbursement for
- Ch 198 (Reserved)
- Ch 202 Excavations and Grading
- Ch 209 Fair Housing
- Ch 211 Fees
- Ch 212 Fire Alarm Regulation
- Ch 213 Firearms and Weapons
- § 213-1 Discharge of firearms and other dangerous instruments prohibited.
- § 213-2 Exceptions.
- § 213-3 Violations and penalties.
- § 213-4 Definitions.
- § 213-5 Preemption.
- Ch 218 Fire Lanes
- Ch 224 Fire Prevention
- Ch 227 Fireworks
- Ch 230 Floodplain Management
- Ch 236 Food Establishments and Vendors
- Ch 242 Handbills
- Ch 245 Human Relations
- Ch 247 (Reserved)
- Ch 253 Insurance
- Ch 259 Loitering
- Ch 264 (Reserved)
- Ch 270 Milk and Milk Products
- Ch 270A Mobile Food Vehicles
- Ch 271 Municipal Storm Sewer System
- Ch 273 Nuisances
- Ch 274 (Reserved)
- Ch 275 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 281 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 285 Plumbing
- Ch 289 Property Maintenance
- Ch 292 Property, Vacant, Abandoned and Foreclosed
- Ch 300 Quality of Life
- Ch 308 Real Estate
- Ch 313 Rental Property
- Ch 317 Sewers
- Ch 325 Smoking
- Ch 331 Solid Waste
- Ch 336 Speed-Timing Devices
- Ch 338 Stormwater Management
- Ch 340 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 345 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 350 Taxation
- Ch 352 Tenant and Occupancy Registration
- Ch 356 Trees
- Ch 361 Utility Poles
- Ch 364 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 365 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 367 Vehicles, Junk
- Ch 370 Water Supply
- Ch 375 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A380 Ordinance Renumbering
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Monessen 7-25-1984
by Ord. No. 3-1984; amended in its entirety 12-23-2004
by Ord. No. 17-2004. Subsequent amendments noted
where applicable.]
No person shall, except in necessary defense of person, discharge any
gun, firearm, arrow, or device capable of launching projectiles within the
City of Monessen.
This chapter shall not prohibit the lawful discharge of any gun, firearm
or device capable of launching projectiles on a firing range for which an
occupancy permit has been issued by the City and which meets or exceeds the
standards and specifications established by the National Rifle Association
for the construction of a firing range, nor shall this chapter prohibit the
discharge of an arrow upon an archery range or on private property in the
City with the property owner's consent.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding before any District Justice
having jurisdiction of such offense, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more
than $300 or to undergo imprisonment not exceeding 90 days, or both.
The definitions applicable to this chapter shall be those set forth
in Section 102 of the Game and Wildlife Code, 34 Pa.C.S.A. § 102.
This chapter is not intended to supersede or conflict with the Game
and Wildlife Code, 34 Pa.C.S.A. § 101-2965, as amended.
