[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Glassboro 2-9-1971 by Ord. No. 3-71 as Ch. 69 of the 1971 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
No person or persons shall fire or discharge
any revolver, pistol, firearms or guns, air gun or slingshot or other
device or article upon any public property or private property not
his own which might injure persons or property within the said Borough
of Glassboro. This provision shall not apply to hunters of wild game
properly licensed by the State of New Jersey, nor to the law enforcement
officials of the Borough of Glassboro during the proper execution
of their duties. No person properly licensed to hunt wild game shall
discharge any firearm across or upon any state, county or municipal
road or highway, and no person except the owner or lessee of the property
shall, for the purpose of hunting, taking or killing any bird or animal,
discharge a firearm within 300 feet of any occupied dwelling in this
state.
No person shall have in his possession, store
or keep any combustible fireworks of any kind, dynamite, nitroglycerin,
giant powder or other explosives within the Borough limits.
No person, firm or corporation shall sell or
store gunpowder, gun shells or cartridges without having first obtained
a permit from the Chief of the Fire Department, who shall inspect
the place where same is to be kept.
A.
Upon application in writing accompanied with a suitable
bond, the governing body may grant a permit for the public display
of fireworks by those groups or persons approved by the governing
body. After such permit shall have been granted, the sale, possession,
use and distribution of fireworks by the holder of the permit shall
be lawful for that purpose only.
B.
All such applications for permits shall set forth
the date, the hour, place of making such display and place of storing
fireworks prior to the display, and further, the name or names of
the person, persons, firm, partnership, corporation, association or
group of individuals making the display; the name of the person or
persons in charge of the igniting, firing, setting off, exploding
or causing to be exploded of such fireworks. The location of the storage
place shall be subject to the approval of the Chief of Fire Department
of the municipality.
C.
The bond to be filed by the licensee shall be in the
sum not less than $2,500 and conditioned for the payment of all damages
which may be caused either to a person or persons or to property by
reason of the display and arising from any acts of the licensee, his
agents, employees or subcontractors. Such surety shall run to the
Borough of Glassboro for the use and benefit of any person, persons
or the owner or owners of any property so damaged, or to such persons
authorized by law to bring action on behalf of the aforesaid persons.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall be subject to a penalty of not more than $2,000,
imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a period of community service
for not more than 90 days, or any combination thereof, in the discretion
of the Municipal Court.
