Dinuba Municipal Code Ch. 9.68 Discharging Firearms

The word “firearm” as used in Sections 9.68.020, 9.68.030 and 9.72.010 means any gun, rifle, shotgun, airgun, B-B gun, pellet gun, crossbow, bow and arrow, tube, launcher, sling or any other instrument used for discharging projectiles capable of doing bodily harm.

(Prior code § 4025; Ord. 358 § 1 (part), 1962)

It is unlawful for any person to fire or discharge a firearm within the city limits except in the following cases:

A. A public officer or member of the armed forces in the lawful discharge of his duties;

B. A person necessarily acting in the lawful defense of person or property;

C. A shooting gallery, practice range or skeet field conducted at a fixed location and with adequate safeguards, for which a permit has been issued by the chief of police;

D. A pistol for shooting blank cartridges when used as a starting gun for athletic contests or as a stage property for a dramatic production; or

E. A construction gun, rivet gun or “driveit” gun.

(Prior code § 4026; Ord. 358 § 1 (part), 1962)

Any firearm that has been discharged unlawfully or possessed unlawfully, as provided in Sections 9.68.020 and 9.72.010, is declared to be a public nuisance, and any police officer of the city is empowered to seize the same and remove it from the possession of the owner or possessor thereof, and upon the order of the chief of police, the firearm shall be destroyed.

(Prior code § 4028; Ord. 358 § 1 (part), 1962)