Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington 334 (Albert R. Heilig ed., 1892)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Washington - Tacoma | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T15:17:02Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T17:53:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T14:22:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1892 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Classified carrying, brandishing, or otherwise using or attempting to use certain deadly weapons, intentionally displaying or using a deadly weapon against another person, and discharging firearms or bombs within city limits as misdemeanors. Police could arrest violators without warrants, and convictions carried fines up to $100. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Police officers; pocket knives | |
| dc.description.lawtext | ORDINANCE NO. 134 Defining disorderly persons and prescribing the punishment for disorderly conduct within the city of Tacoma. . . . Section 1. . . . All persons (except police officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute process or warrants or make arrests) who shall carry upon his person any concealed weapon consisting of a revolver, pistol or other fire arms or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife) or any dirk or dagger, sling shot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person; All persons (except police officers as aforesaid) who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon upon, to or against another person, in said city with intent to do bodily injury to such person; and All persons (except peace officers as aforesaid and persons practicing at target shooting in a shooting gallery duly licensed) who shall, within the city limits, fire off or discharge any gun, pistol or fire arm of any kind, or bomb, shall be deemed and are disorderly persons, and guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. The Chief of Police and the policemen or watchmen shall, each and every one of them, have power and are hereby authorized at any and all times to arrest or cause to be arrested, with or without process or warrant, any disorderly person or persons found by him or them committing any misdemeanor as defined in section one (1) of this ordinance. SEC. 3. Every person so arrested shall be forthwith taken before any committing magistrate of said city, and in case a committing magistrate cannot be found or the arrest is made in the night time, then the officers arresting such person may detain him in custody or commit him to some place for keeping until a committing magistrate can be found, when said offender shall be immediately brought before such committing magistrate to be dealt with as in the next section prescribed. SEC. 4. The said committing magistrates or any one of them, shall have power and it shall be their duty in cases of persons brought before them charged with being disorderly persons, to proceed summarily to try such person or persons and to hear and determine the alleged offense or charge against them, and on conviction to punish such person or persons by fine in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and such person or persons so convicted shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid. Passed August 28th, 1886. Approved August 30th, 1886. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/5732 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://perma.cc/L8VE-C8E4 | |
| dc.subject | BRANDISHING | |
| dc.subject | CARRY - CONCEALED | |
| dc.subject | CARRY::CARRY - INTENT TO COMMIT CRIME | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.subject | SHOOTING RANGES OR GALLERIES | |
| dc.title | Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington 334 (Albert R. Heilig ed., 1892) |