Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0613    Version: 0 Name: Weapons - BB Guns, etc.
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 3/12/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2007
Enactment #:
Title: Weapons - BB Guns, etc. FOR the purpose of prohibiting the possession, discharge, or use of air rifles, air guns, and BB guns, as well as their transfer to minors; imposing certain penalties; and generally relating to air rifles, air guns, and BB guns.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Keiffer Mitchell, Kenneth Harris, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Sharon Green Middleton, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, President Young, Belinda Conaway
Indexes: BB Guns, Weapons
Attachments: 1. 07-0613 - 1st Reader.pdf

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

 

                     * WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.

                     THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.

                     INTRODUCTORY*

 

                     CITY OF BALTIMORE

                     COUNCIL BILL          

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by:  Councilmembers Clarke, Mitchell, and Harris                                                         

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Weapons - BB Guns, etc.

 

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the possession, discharge, or use of air rifles, air guns, and BB guns, as well as their transfer to minors; imposing certain penalties; and generally relating to air rifles, air guns, and BB guns.

Body

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments

Article 19 - Police Ordinances

Section(s) 59-3

Baltimore City Code

(Edition 2000)

 

SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

 

                     Baltimore City Code

 

                     Article 19.  Police Ordinance

 

                     Subtitle 59.  Weapons

 

§ 59-3.  Air rifles, BB guns, etc.

 

(a)  Prohibited conduct - POSSESSION.

 

NO PERSON MAY POSSESS, DISCHARGE, OR USE ANY AIR RIFLE, AIR GUN, OR BB GUN IN BALTIMORE CITY.

 

(B)  PROHIBITED CONDUCT - MINORS.

 

No person may sell, give away, lend, rent, or otherwise transfer to any minor or permit any minor to possess any air rifle, air gun, or BB gun IN BALTIMORE CITY.

 

 

 

(C) [(b)]  Penalties.

 

Any person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to THE FOLLOWING PENALTIES:

 

(1)                     FOR A VIOLATION OF SUBSECTION (A) {"POSSESSION"} OF THIS SECTION, a fine of not more than $500 or to imprisonment for not more than [60] 90 days or to both fine and imprisonment for each offense; AND

 

(1)                     FOR A VIOLATION OF SUBSECTION (B) {"MINORS"} OF THIS SECTION, A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000 OR TO IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 12 MONTHS OR TO BOTH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT FOR EACH OFFENSE.

 

SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

 

SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.

 

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