Ordinance 1987-05
ORDINANCE NO. __.2_Z-::~--
BEING AN ORDINANCE CONTROLLING THE DISCHARGE OF FIRE ARMS
AND OTHER WEAPONS WITH IN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
WYLIE, CONTAINING A PENALTY CLAUSE, CONTAINING A SEVERANCE
CLAUSE, CONTAINING A PROVISION FOR PUBLICATION AND PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE:
WHEREAS: The City of Wylie presently has no ordinance
controlling the discharge of fire arms and other weapons
within the City of Wylie and;
WHEREAS: The City Council has declared that such an
ordinance is required to protect the Health, Safety, and
Welfare of its citizens;
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WYLIE, TEXAS THAT:
SECTION 1.
UNLAWFUL DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS AND WEAPONS
From and after the effective date of this ordinance it shall
be unlawful to discharge or cause to be discharged within
the city limits of the City of Wylie, Texas the following
weapC:1Y"ls:
A. Any firearm, rifle, shotgun, automatic rifle,
revolver, pistol, or any other weapon desgined for the
purpose of firing or discharging a shell or cartridge,
whether such shell or cartridge is blank or live ammunition,
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B. Any B-B gun, pellet gun, air rifle, bow and arrow,
or other device, manufactured, altered or intended to cause
any material, item or thing to become a projectile.
SECTION 2.
EXCEPTIONS
The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply in the
following situations:
A. Police Officers while in the performance of their
official duties,
B. Where a special permit application describing in
detail the request of the applicant, has been filed with the
City Secretary, reviewed by the Chief of Police and approved
by the City Council.
C. Where blank cartridges are used to indicate the
beginning of a sporting event under the auspicies of the
schools or when such sporting event is in conjunction with
other activities approved by the City Council.
SECTION 3.
PENALTY
Any person, firm, corporation or other entity who is found
guilty of violating the terms of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction of any
such violation, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed the
amount permitted by State Law.
SECTION 4.
SEVERABILITY
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses,
and phrases of this ordinance are severable and if any
phrase, clause, sentence or section of this ordinance shall
be declared unconstitutional or invalid by any judgement or
decree of a court of competent jursidiction, such
unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any other
remaining phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of
this ordinance; and the City Council hereby declares it
would have passed the remaining portions even though it had
known the affected parts would be held unconstitutional.
SECTION 5.
PUBLICATIONS
The caption of this ordinance shall be published one time in
a newspaper of general distribution in the City of Wylie.
SECTION 6.
EFFECTIVE DATE
This ordinance shall become effective upon its publication
in a newspaper of general circulation.
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THE WYLIE NEWS
P. O. BOX 2..
WYLlf, TUM 710M
STATE OF TEXAS J..
COUNTY OF COLLIN D
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally
appeared Scott Dorsey, of the Wylie News, a newspaper
regularly published in Collin County, Texas and having general
circulation in Collin County, Texas who being by me duly sworn
deposed and says that the forgoing attached
Ordinance No 87 - 5
was published in said newspaper on the following dates to wit:
January 21
, 1987 and
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day of '-- ~ , 1987 to certify which witness my
hand and seal of office.
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Notary Public in and for the
State of Texas
My Commission expires 9-12-89
Sef11iflg WUleawake Wvlie Since 1947
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