[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Tredyffrin as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as Ch. VI, Art. 4, § 401, of the 1979
General Laws of the Municipality of Tredyffrin]
It shall be unlawful and it is hereby prohibited for any person, persons,
firms or corporations to store, sell, offer or expose for sale at retail or
have in their possession with intent to sell at retail or with intent to use
in the Township of Tredyffrin any air gun, air pistol, spring gun or any implement
not a firearm which impels with force a pellet of any kind. "At retail" shall
mean any sale of less than one dozen such articles, or any sale to anyone
not a bona fide dealer herein.
The Captain of Police is hereby authorized to seize, remove and destroy
any air gun, air pistol, spring gun or any implement not a firearm which impels
with force a pellet of any kind, which shall be used or discharged in the
Township of Tredyffrin, Chester County, Pennsylvania, or which shall be held
or possessed in violation of this article.
[Amended 10-19-1998 by Ord.
No. HR-278; 10-2-2000 by Ord.
No. HR-290]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article, shall
be guilty of a summary violation and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus all court costs, including reasonable
attorney's fees, incurred by the township in the enforcement of this article.
Each day a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. In default
of the payment of any fine, the defendant shall be sentenced to imprisonment
to the extent allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses. Further,
the appropriate officers or agents of the township are hereby authorized to
seek any other available relief at law or equity, including injunction, to
enforce compliance with this article.
[Adopted as Ch. VI, Art. 4, § 402, of the 1979
General Laws of the Municipality of Tredyffrin]
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Shooting Ordinance
of Tredyffrin Township."
For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
A place for shooting weapons, having a natural or artificial barrier
of sufficient size and density to stop any projectile or pellets fired into
it, approved and designated of record by the Tredyffrin Township Chief of
Police as an approved range.
Shooting upon an approved range in a manner consistent with safety
of persons and property as authorized by the Chief of Police in approving
such range under the supervision of the owner or occupant of the land or his
duly designated representative.
A certification, upon a form prescribed by the Township Supervisors,
dated and signed by the owner or occupant of real property, attesting that
the bearer has been instructed by the signer concerning the topography and
natural artificial hazards and traffic conditions existing upon his land and
adjacent thereto, has been duly cautioned regarding existing dangers and precautions
to be taken, and has thereupon been granted permission to hunt upon the same
for a period not exceeding one year from the date of the certificate.
The discharge or release of a projectile or pellets from any weapon,
including the shooting of a pointed arrow from a bow.
Any shotgun, rifle, air rifle, flobert rifle, pistol, revolver, pellet
gun or weapon of similar type, and any bow used to propel a pointed arrow.
It shall be the responsibility of each owner or occupant of land to
instruct carefully any person applying for permission to hunt thereon concerning
the terrain, its dangers and all necessary precautions to be observed before
issuing a certificate. Any certificate shall be revocable at will upon notice
to the holder. A copy of each certificate and of each revocation notice shall
be filed with the Township Secretary.
Shooting within Tredyffrin Township is hereby prohibited, except:
A.
While lawfully hunting game in conformity with the game
laws and other applicable laws, regulations and ordinances of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and this township, provided that each person other than the
owner or occupant of land, the members of his immediate family and his employees
shall carry a valid certificate upon his person and exhibit the same to any
representative of the township upon request.
B.
At an authorized range shooting, as herein defined.
C.
By any duly appointed law officer in the course of his
or her official duties.
[Added 10-19-1998 by Ord.
No. HR-278]
D.
When necessary for the preservation of human life, as
authorized in the Pennsylvania Crimes Code (18 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et
seq.).
[Added 10-19-1998 by Ord.
No. HR-278]
The careless or improper use of any weapon, tending to imperil the safety
of persons or endanger property within Tredyffrin Township, is hereby prohibited
as a disorderly practice.
[Amended 10-19-1998 by Ord.
No. HR-278; 10-2-2000 by Ord.
No. HR-290]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article, shall
be guilty of a summary violation and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus all court costs, including reasonable
attorney's fees, incurred by the township in the enforcement of this article.
Each day a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. In default
of the payment of any fine, the defendant shall be sentenced to imprisonment
to the extent allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses. Further,
the appropriate officers or agents of the township are hereby authorized to
seek any other available relief at law or equity, including injunction, to
enforce compliance with this article.
Legible signs giving public notice of the essential provisions of this
article shall be posted at or near the public highways at the boundaries of
Tredyffrin Township.
