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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 1 of 1998
(Discharging Firearms)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 11.48.060 OF THE SALT
LAKE CITY CODE RELATING TO FIREARMS.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City,
Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 11.48.060 of the Salt Lake
City Code, relating to Discharging firearms, be, and the
same hereby is, AMENDED to read as follows:
11.48.060 Discharging firearms prohibited.
A. Prohibition; Exceptions. It is unlawful for any
person to discharge firearms of any description within the
corporate limits of the city, except:
1. At a regularly licensed shooting gallery;
2. At the Salt Lake City police target range;
3. The Utah State Armory;
4. At a regularly conducted school as a part of
a supervised course of instruction;
5. At a regularly organized gun club shooting
range, where the range and facilities have been
approved by the mayor or the mayor's designated agent;
6. At a mobile range trailer where range and
facilities have been approved by the Mayor or the
Mayor's designee;
7. In areas authorized by the State of Utah for
hunting, provided that:
a) No rifle, handgun, muzzle loader or
shotgun using slugs or 00 buckshot shall be
discharged within one mile of any cabin, house or
other building regularly occupied by people; and
b) No shotgun shall be discharged within
six hundred feet (two hundred yards) of any cabin,
home or building regularly occupied by people.
8. Police officers in performance of their
duties.
B. Ceremonies and firearm demonstrations. Unloaded
firearms may be discharged using only a powder charge
at:
1. Funerals or other memorial ceremonies as part
of the ceremony; and
2. Locations approved by the Mayor or Mayor's
designee for demonstrations of firearms.
SECTION 2. This amendment to Section 11.48.060 of the
Salt Lake City Code shall take effect on first publication.
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