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Chapter 12 — OFFENSES-MISCELLANEOUS1›Article II — REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS

Piedmont Municipal Code § 12.5 Firearms, ETC.2 -Sales or Gifts to Minors; Use or Possession

Piedmont Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · Piedmont

Cite as: Piedmont Municipal Code § 12.5 · Text as of 2026-10-03

BY MINORS; EXCEPTIONS

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or give to any minor in the City, under the age of eighteen years, or to allow any such minor to possess, use or discharge, or for any such minor to use or possess, any rifle, gun, pistol, revolver, air rifle, B-B gun, slingshot or other similar

2 For state law as to firing of firearms, see Gov. C. §25840. As to discharge of firearms at dwelling houses, etc., see Pen. C. §246. As to shooting firearms from or upon public roads or highways, see Pen. C. §374c. As to discharge of firearms, see §12.24 of this Code.

Offenses-Miscellaneous instrument from or by means of which any bullet, shot or other missile of any kind may be pro- jected; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the possession of such firearms or other instruments by such minors in bona fide shooting galleries, gun clubs or organizations and educational institutions authorized to give firearm instructions, while such firearms or other instruments are being used as a part of such instructions, nor to the possession of unloaded firearms, air rifles or other such instruments by any such minor as an employee of a merchant, when such possession is in the usual course of his employment. (Ord. No. 82, N.S., 6/37)

12.5.1 Fortune-Telling, Etc. for Fees, Salary or Any Other Compensation. It shall be

unlawful for any person to exhibit or conduct within the corporate limits of the City, for fees, salary or any other compensation, the business, art or practice of astrology, palmistry, phrenology, life reading, fortune-telling, cartomacy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal gazing, mediumship, prophecy, augury, divination, magic or necromancy. (Ord. No. 234 N.S., 12/62)

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12.5.2 Insulting, Annoying, Etc., Remarks to or Molestation of Another in Public.

It shall be unlawful for any person to make audible annoying or insulting remarks to or about or to molest in any other manner whatever, any person in, near or about a public place.
(Ord. No. 237 N.S., 4/63)

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