Ordinance No. 3,50021111 -2
ORDINANCE NO. 3500
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 17--2, "FIREARMS AND
TARGET RANGES" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES PROVIDING
FOR AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES; PROVIDING A REPEALING
CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING
FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That Section 17 -2(B) 4 of the Code of Ordinances
of the City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"it is an affirmative defense to prosecution if
such discharge was confined to a target range which
holds a certificate of approval issued by the chief
of police and the discharge was under the actual
direction of an instructor certified by the Texas
Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and
Education, the National Rifle Association of
America, or a military Reserve or Junior Reserve
Officer Training Corps program, or such projectile
was discharged within and confined by a bullet trap
which holds a certificate of approval issued by the
chief of police and was fired directly in such trap
by a licensed gun dealer."
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances incon-
sistent with the terms of this ordinance, are hereby repealed
provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent
of such inconsistency and in all other respects this ordinance
shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and governing
the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 3: If any provision, section, exception, sub-
section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance
or the application of same to any person or set of circumstances,
shall for any reason be held unconstitutional, void or invalid,
such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining
provisions of this ordinance or their application to other
persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all provisions
of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
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Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect from and after
its passage by the City Council.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown on this the llth day of
November. 1982.
M T 0. HU O, Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED:
RANDALL B. STRONG, Cit ttorney
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