1802 N.Y. Laws 41-42
| dc.coverage.spatial | New York | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T13:33:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:22:31Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:32:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1785 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ch. 81: Whereas great dangers have arisen, and mischief been done by the pernicious practice of firing guns, pistols, rockets, squibs, and other fire-works, on the eve of the last day of December, and first and second days of January: For prevention whereof for the future: Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in the Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons whomsoever, shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rocket, squib or other fire-work, within a quarter of a mile of any building, on the said eve or days before mentioned, every such person or persons so offending and being thereof convicted before any justice of the peace of the city or county where such offense shall be committed, either by the confession of the party or parties so offending, or the oath of any one credible witness, shall for every such offence, forfeit the sum of forty shillings | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That if any person or persons whomsoever, shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rocket, squib or other fire-work, within a quarter of a mile of any building, on the said eve or days before mentioned, every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted before any justice of the peace of the city or county where such offence shall be committed, either by the confession of the party or parties so offending, or the oath of any one credible witness, shall for every such offence, forfeit the sum of forty shillings, with costs of suit, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of the said justice before whom such conviction or convictions shall be had as aforesaid; the one moiety of which forfeiture to be applied to the use of the poor of the town or place wherein such offender shall be convicted, and the other moiety to the use of the person or persons who shall prosecute for the same; and for want of sufficient distress whereon to levy the same, every such justice is hereby empowered and required, to commit every such person or persons so as aforesaid offending, to the common gaol of the county wherein the said forfeiture shall arise, there to remain without bail or mainprise, for the space of one month, unless such forfeiture or forfeitures be sooner paid. | |
| dc.description.summary | Discharging firearms, pistols, or fireworks within a quarter-mile of any building on the specified eve or holidays is strictly prohibited. Violators convicted before a justice of the peace face a penalty of forty shillings plus court costs, levied through the seizure and sale of their personal property. Forfeited funds are divided equally between local relief for the poor and the party prosecuting the offense; if the fine cannot be collected, the offender faces up to one month of imprisonment in the county jail. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4810 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_of_the_State_of_New_York/coY2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=New+York+laws+statutes+acts&pg=PA15&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.title | 1802 N.Y. Laws 41-42 |