29-19 - Amend Weapons ordinances

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549.08 IMPROPERLY FURNISHING FIREARMS TO A MINOR (a) No person shall: (1) Sell any firearm or stun gun to a person under age eighteen; (2) Sell any handgun to a person under age twenty-one; (3) Furnish any firearm to a person under age eighteen, except for purposes of lawful hunting, or for purposes of instruction in firearms safety, care, handling or marksmanship under the supervision or control of a responsible adult. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of improperly furnishing firearms to a minor, a misdemeanor of the second degree. is hereby repealed. Section 5. Section 549.21, Weapons Dealer's License, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances currently reading as follows: 549.21 WEAPONS DEALER'S LICENSE. (a) No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of selling, or sell or give away to any person, within the City, any deadly weapon without securing a license to do so as hereinafter provided. (b) The issuance of a dealer's license to sell deadly weapons shall be restricted to locations within a retail district or commercial district. Further, a dealer's license shall not be issued to an applicant whose proposed dealer location is within five hundred (500) feet of the boundary of a parcel of real estate upon which a school, church, day care center, public park, government building, or another weapons dealer is located. (c) No dealer's license shall be issued to any applicant whose dealer's license has been revoked, nor to any applicant who has been convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter, until the expiration of five years from the effective date of such revocation or five years from the date of such conviction. The license issued pursuant to this section shall be prominently displayed by every dealer at their place of business. (d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. is hereby repealed. Section 6. Section 549.22, Application for Weapons License, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, currently reading as follows: 549.22 APPLICATION FOR WEAPONS LICENSE. (a) Every handgun and/or deadly weapon dealer in the City shall procure a dealer's license to engage in such business. Any dealer engaged in such business at more than one location in the City shall procure a separate license for each location. Application for dealer's license shall be made in writing at the office of the Chief of Police and shall be accompanied by an application fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00), which shall be paid into the City treasury. If it appears upon investigation that the applicant has complied with all federal, state and City licensing requirements, the Chief of Police shall issue a dealer's license to the applicant within not less than five day nor more than twenty days from the date of application. A copy of each dealer's license shall be retained by the Chief, together with a copy of the application, which documents shall be maintained on permanent file by the Chief. (b) A dealer's license shall remain in effect for one year or until such time as it is revoked, surrendered or the dealer discontinues business as a dealer. Licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of this section are not transferable in any manner.