[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Hamburg 9-9-2015 by Ord. No.
06-2015.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance was originally adopted
as Chapter 152 but was renumbered to maintain the organization of
the Code.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meaning 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
ejects a bullet or missile smaller than 3/8 of an inch in diameter,
with sufficient force to injure the person. It shall also, by definition,
include any bow and arrow including crossbow and slingshot.
No person shall discharge any firearm within the Borough of Hamburg except as provided in § 115-3 of this chapter.
This chapter shall not apply to:
A.Â
Law enforcement officers or other persons authorized by law to carry
and discharge firearms in the performance of their duties;
B.Â
Members of any legally recognized military organization while in
the performance of their official duties;
C.Â
Privately employed security personnel who are authorized by law to
carry firearms while in the performance of their official duties;
D.Â
Persons lawfully using firearms in the protection of their person
or property for self-defense;
E.Â
Powder-charged construction equipment used to connect materials to
metals or concrete;
F.Â
Persons lawfully using firearms on property owned by the State of
New Jersey.
This chapter is severable, and in the event any part hereof
is deemed or declared invalid for whatsoever reason by a court of
competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the chapter shall remain
in full force and effect.
This chapter shall take effect upon passage and publication
as provided by law.
