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PLEASE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 21-96 PLACED
<br />ON 1ST READING ~ REFERRED TO COMMITTEE OF TIlE
<br />~HOLE ON 5/20/96; PLACED ON 2ND READING 6/17/96.
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<br />ORDINANCE NO: .Z1-96 BY: Boscia, George, Roth, Seelie
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<br /> AN ORDINANCE amending Section 549.01, repealing Sections 549. t3, 540.14,
<br />549.15, 540.16, 540.17 and 540.18, and enacting Sections 540.2l, 540.22, 540.23,540.24,
<br />549.25, 540.26, 54q.27, 540.28, 540.29 and 540.98 of the Genera[ Offenses Code of the
<br />Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood.
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<br /> WHEREAS, this ordinance is necessary for the continued preservation of public
<br />peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the city and for the further reason that current
<br />law regulating weapon ownership and sales is antiquated, unenforced and its constitutkmalit¥
<br />is in question;
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<br /> BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE
<br />OF OHIO:
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<br /> Section 1. That Section 549.01 of the General Offenses Code of the Codified
<br />Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, now reading as follows:
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<br />549,01 DEFhN ITIONS.
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<br /> As used in this chapter:
<br /> (a) ~Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a
<br />succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger. 'Automatic firearm" also means
<br />any semi-automatic firearm designed or specially adapted to fire more than thircy-one
<br />cartridges without reloading, other than a firearm chambering only .22 caliber short, long or
<br />long-rifle cartridges,
<br /> (b) 'Ballistic knife" means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a
<br />spring-operated mechanism.
<br /> (c) ~Dangerous ordnance' means any of the following, except as provided in
<br />subsection (d~ hereof:
<br /> (1) Any automatic or sawed-off firearm, zip-gun or ballistic knife:
<br /> (2) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
<br /> (3} Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, PETN, cyclonite. TNT, picric
<br /> acid and other high explosives, amatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite,
<br /> pecretol, cyc[otol, an.d other high explosive compositions; plastic explosives;
<br /> dynamite, blasting gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitizt4 ammonium nitrate,
<br /> liquid-oxygen blasting explosives, blasting powder and other blasting
<br /> agents; and any other explosive substance having sufficient brisance or
<br /> power to be particularly suitable for use,as a military explosive, or for use in
<br /> mining, quarrying, excavating or demolitions;
<br /> (4} Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine. bomb,
<br /> torpedo or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes.
<br /> and the ammunition for that weapom
<br /> (5) Any firearm muffler or silencer;
<br /> (6~ Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner for use in converting
<br /> any firearm or other device into a dangerous ordnance.
<br /> (d) 'Dan.uemus ordnance" does not include any of the following:
<br /> (1} Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammunition for that
<br /> weapon, and regardless of its actual age, which employs a percussion cap or
<br /> other obsolete ismition system, or which is designed and safe for use only with
<br /> black powder:
<br /> (21 Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purp{~ses.
<br /> inclttdine a military weapon as issued or as modified, ant[ thc ammunition
<br /> that weapon, unless thc firearm is an automatic or sawed-off firea,-m:
<br /> (B Any cannon or other artillery piece which, regardless of its actual age, is of a
<br /> type in accepted use prior to 1887, has no mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic
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