Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Los Angeles 39 (1873)
| dc.coverage.spatial | California - Los Angeles | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T03:24:55Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:04:14Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-16T23:13:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1873 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, rifle, or other description of fire-arms, or discharge of any air-gun within city fire limits. Violators fined give dollars for the first offence, ten dollars for the second offense, and not more than fifty dollars and imprisonment not exceeding ten days on the third offense. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Discharge authorized by permit | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Religious, funeral, or military ceremonies | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 23. No person or persons shall fire any gun, pistol, or rifle, or other description of fire-arms, or discharge any air-gun whatever within the fire limits of the city, or in any corral, yard or street within said fire limits, undera penalty of five dollars for the first offence; ten dollars for the second offence, and for the third offence, not more than fifty dollars and imprisonment at the discretion of the Mayor, not exceeding ten days. Sec. 24. No person or persons shall fire, discharge or set off within the fire limits of the city, under a penalty of ten dollars for the first offence, and for each and every subsequent offence the same, and imprisonment at the discretion of the Mayor, not exceeding ten days any rocket, cracker, squib, torpedo or other fire works containing combustible material. There is left to the City Marshal a discretionary power, and he may permit such display on national holidays or other fete days; but he shall use all diligence and care to prevent any evil arising, an I should he anticipate or have reason to fear any evil, it shall be his duty at once to prohibit any exhibition, and he shall then strictly and rigidly enforce this section. The discharge of fire-arms, or the display of fireworks conected with any religious ceremony or military display, where due diligence and care are used to prevent any evil arising, are permitted, and nothing within these last two sections shall apply to the prohibition of such display for any religious or funeral ceremony. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3208 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://perma.cc/829C-2AK7 | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.title | Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Los Angeles 39 (1873) |