The following local ordinances apply in Manassas Park City:
- Sec. 26-3. - Discharging of firearms. (reference)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person in the city to discharge any firearm, except in a shooting gallery constructed and operated in accordance with the regulations of the National Rifle Association.
(b) This section shall not apply to any law enforcement officer in the discharge of his duties nor to any other person whose discharge of a firearm is justifiable or excusable at law in the protection of his life or property or in otherwise specifically authorized by law.
(c) For purposes of this chapter 26, the term "firearm" means any weapon that will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel single or multiple projectiles by the action of an explosion of a combustible material; or the frame or receiver of any such weapon.
(Code 1971, § 30-2; Ord. No. 12-1700-914, § 1, 11-1-11)
Cross reference— License tax for shooting galleries, § 14-90.
State Law reference— Authority of city to regulate or prohibit discharge of firearms, Code of Virginia, § 15.2-1113; discharging firearms in streets or public places, §§ 18.2-280, 18.2-286.
- Sec. 26-5. - Discharging of pneumatic guns, slingshots, grit shooters, bows and arrows, etc. (reference)
(a) No person shall discharge or use in the city any non-explosive weapon (i.e., not a firearm, as defined in section 26-3 above), where such discharge or use is likely to do or cause injury to any person or property. For purposes of this chapter 26, the term "non-explosive weapon" means a pneumatic gun (e.g., paintball gun, BB gun, pellet gun, etc.), slingshot, grit shooter, bow and arrow or other non-explosive device designed or intended to be used to launch or shoot projectiles.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection (a) above, the use of non-explosive weapons shall not be prohibited at facilities approved for shooting ranges, on other property where firearms may be lawfully discharged, or on or within private property with permission of the owner or legal possessor thereof when conducted with reasonable care to prevent a projectile from crossing the bounds of the property.
(Code 1971, § 30-3; Ord. No. 12-1700-914, § 1, 11-1-11)
- Sec. 17-39.1. - Hunting of birds, mammals or relics on city and private property. (reference)
(a) The city council hereby declares that all land owned by the city, and all land under option to purchase by the city, located within the city and Prince William County, Virginia (specifically the Signal Hill Tract, the Bull Run Tract, the Bobby Tract, the Conner Tract and all other unnamed land owned by the city) shall be posted to all hunting of birds and mammals (game and nongame) and it shall be unlawful for any person to carry or have in his possession any weapons legal in Virginia for hunting purposes on such land.
(b) The hunting of relics or the use or possession of metal detectors shall be unlawful on all of the land referred to in subsection (a) above, unless written permission, authorized by the city council and signed by the mayor, is granted.
(c) Any title owner of real property within the corporate limits of the city may request, in writing, that the city enforce the prohibition on the hunting of relics or the use of metal detectors, set forth in subsection (b) above, on such private property. Following receipt of such request by the city, the city will thereafter enforce the prohibition on the hunting of relics or the use of metal detectors on such private property until such time as the title owner of such private property rescinds his request in writing or the governing body amends or revokes this subsection accordingly.
(Ord. No. 78-1700-129, 10-3-78; Ord. No. 07-1700-831, § 5, 5-15-07)
Cross reference— Animals and fowl, Ch. 5; weapons, Ch. 26.