HomeMy WebLinkAbout2646 ORDINANCE NO. 2646
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 325 as
amended by Ordinance No. 363, 1152, 1832,
2492, and 2631 by providing for and licensing
the discharge of firearms within the City of
Bremerton for the protection of growing or
matured crops, and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That Section 4 of Ordinance No. 325 as amended
by Ordinances No. 363, 1182, 1832, 2492 and 2631 be ~_~ it hereby is
amended to read as follows:
Section 4. PIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES: It shall be unlawful
for any person to fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, revolver,
or any firearm of any description, and it shall be unlawful for any
person to sell or expose for sale, fire, discharge, explode or set
off any squib, fire cracker, torpedo, or other thing containing powder
or other explosive material: PROVI..DED HOWEVER, that a firearm may be
discharged within the City of Bremerton where the person so discharging
the same shall have procured a written permit issued by the Chief
of Police of Bremerton granting such person permission to discharge
such firearm at the time, place, in the manner and for the purpose
the permit was issued. Such permit shall not issue unless and until
the Chief of Police finds as a fact that:
a. Such discharge is essential for the protection of a
growing or a matured crop;
b. The applicant has not been convicted in the State of
Washington, or elsewhere, of a crime of violence nor
of moral t'~pitude, is not a fugitive from Justice,
a drug addict, an habitual drunkard, nor of unsound
mind;
c. The applicant has a bona fide current permit from the
State of Washington or from a Department of the United
States authorizing the applicant to so protect such
crop or crops;
d. Such discharge can reasonably be accomplished without
endangering other persons or property.
Annual permits, expiring on June 30th of each year, shall
be issued. And, upon the payment of a fee therefore in the sum of
$~.00, shall be limited to the use of bird shot, shall immediately
terminate upon any damage, destruction, or undue hazard to other per-
sons or property, or upon violation of the terms of its issue. A
(1)
A permitee hereunder violating any condition of such permit, or giving
false information in application therefore, shall not again be eli-
gible for a permit.
Section 2. Tha~ an emergency exists and it is hereby de-
clared to exist, and that by reason of the immediate need for the
protection of a growing crop or crops within the City of Bremerton,
and for other reasons of an urgent nature, this ordinance is nec-
essary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health,
safe~y and general welfare of the citizens of Bremerton, and shall
take effect immediately upon passage and publication.
PASSED unanimously by ~he City Council of the City of Brem-
erton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authen-
tication of such passage this 2?th day of August, 1965.
GLENN K.
ATTEST:
E. H. T. McGOWAN, CITY CLERK