An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 130.02 Adopted on August 5, 2024, and Titled “An Ordinance Relating to Discharging Firearms”
The City Council of Lanesboro, Minnesota ordains:
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1. Ordinance No. 130.02 adopted on August 7, 2023, and titled “Discharging Firearms” is amended to read:
A. General
Discharge
of
Firearms. It is a misdemeanor for any person to discharge any firearm or bow and arrow within the city or to cause a projectile therefrom to enter the city unless:
a. By a police officer in the course of law enforcement;
b. By a person firing for a military salute or by persons of the nation’s armed forces
acting under military authority;
c. By a person protecting life of a person;
d. By a special permit of the City Council;
e. By a person with proper licensure hunting in an area zoned Rural Agricultural
District.
f. By a person participating in archery practice with use of blunt tip arrows and a
safety backdrop.
B. Discharge
of
Firearms
Prohibited
in
Certain
Places. No person shall discharge a firearm upon or over a public road, highway, upon, over, or near a cemetery or city park, playground, orchard, or other ground appurtenant to a school, church, or an inhabited dwelling, the property of another, or charitable institution.
C. If any of the above provisions are found to be in conflict with M.S. ‘624.717, as it may be amended from time to time, the provisions of that statute shall prevail.
D. Penalty, see ‘130.99.
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2. This ordinance becomes effective from and after its passage and publication.
Passed by the City Council of Lanesboro, Minnesota this 5th day of August, 2024.
/s/ Jason Resseman, Mayor
Attested:
/s/ Mitchell Walbridge, City Administrator
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