Township of Butler, PA
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2023-08-21
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 172 Firearms
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Auditor
- Ch 7 Authorities
- Ch 12 BOCA Code Board of Appeals
- Ch 23 Cooperative Purchasing
- Ch 28 Emergency Management
- Ch 33 Finances
- Ch 38 Fire Commission
- Ch 41 Fire Companies
- Ch 45 Firemen's Relief
- Ch 49 Hazard Mitigation Plan
- Ch 50 Hazardous Material Abatement
- Ch 53 Incident Management System
- Ch 55 Intergovernmental Cooperation
- Ch 61 Manager and Assistant Manager
- Ch 67 Municipal Employers Trust Agreement
- Ch 72 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 74 Personnel
- Ch 78 Planning Commission
- Ch 81 Property, Sale of
- Ch 82 Public Meetings
- Ch 84 Records
- Ch 89 Reimbursement of Expenses
- Ch 95 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 99 Tourism, Promotion of
- Ch 101 Treasurer and Tax Collector
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 106 Agricultural Security Area
- Ch 107 Alarm Systems
- Ch 114 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 119 Amusement Devices
- Ch 127 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 134 Building Construction
- Ch 138 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 142 Criminal History Records
- Ch 149 Curfew
- Ch 152 Donations
- Ch 156 Drainage Standards
- Ch 158 Driveways
- Ch 160 Emergency Services Cost Recovery
- Ch 167 Fees
- Ch 172 Firearms
- § 172-1 Findings.
- § 172-2 Use of firearms restricted.
- § 172-3 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 176 Fire Prevention
- Ch 183 Floodplain Management
- Ch 188 Grading and Excavating
- Ch 191 Insurance
- Ch 198 Littering
- Ch 204 Natural Gas and Oil Extraction
- Ch 207 Noise
- Ch 210 Nuisances
- Ch 212 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 214 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 224 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 226 Shooting Range
- Ch 231 Solid Waste
- Ch 238 Speed-Timing Devices
- Ch 242 Stormwater Management
- Ch 245 Streets
- Ch 252 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 259 Taxation
- Ch 266 Tenant Registration
- Ch 272 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 278 Vehicles, Junked or Abandoned
- Ch 284 Vehicles, Motorized
- Ch 290 Water
- Ch 296 Watercourses
- Ch 300 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A304 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A305 Street Acceptances, Vacations and Name Changes
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Butler 11-1-1965 by Ord. No. 379 as Ch. V, Sec. 2, of the
1965 Code; amended in its entirety 10-5-1998 by Ord. No. 765. Subsequent amendments
noted where applicable.]
The Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Butler finds that the indiscriminate discharge of firearms is dangerous
to the residents of the Township and that the restriction of such
indiscriminate discharge of firearms is in the public interest.
No person, except law enforcement officers in
pursuit of their duties, shall fire or discharge any gun or other
firearm at any place within the Township of Butler, except in necessary
defense of person or property or except when lawfully engaged in hunting.
Any person who shall violate any provision of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof by a District Justice,
be sentenced to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000
and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and
costs, to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days.
