§ 10.64.037. Community exemptions.

The following exemptions shall apply to the no shooting zones of specific communities:

A.

Long Valley. Archery target practice on private property may be allowed if the target practice range is sited and used in a safe manner such that no arrow may be allowed to leave the property upon which the range is located and no danger is posed to any person or property. The following conditions shall be required in addition to any other safe archery range practices:

1.

The range must have a target or targets. All range targets must be commercially-sold, three-dimensional, animal-shaped targets or be made of a bale of hay or similar substance sufficient to absorb the arrow. A target may not be any other natural or man-made object that has not been designed and manufactured to be an archery target.

2.

The range must be sited and have a backstop made and designed to prevent an arrow from leaving the property or failing to protect any person or other property.

3.

Only arrows with target tips may be used.

4.

All arrows must be shot in a straight, horizontal line or trajectory, extending no more than thirty yards in distance.

5.

Any target practice shall only occur during daylight hours.

6.

Target practice while under the influence of alcohol or drugs is prohibited and constitutes a misdemeanor.

7.

Minors under the age of sixteen shall only shoot when accompanied by an adult.

8.

Cross-bows are not within the exemption.

B.

Chalfant Valley. Chalfant Valley's history of agricultural use and the absence of a no shooting zone in West Chalfant shall allow for the following exemptions:

1.

Shooting on property within an agricultural zone to dispatch an animal raised for food in a humane manner consistent with state law regulating the killing of livestock and in a manner that poses no harm to any person or other property.

(Ord. No. 11-02, § 2, 4-12-2011)