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Sec. 10-71. - Prohibited in certain areas.#
No person shall hunt with a gun, pursue, shoot at, take or kill any bird or animal, at any time, within the following described areas in the town: (1)
The area bounded and described as follows: Northerly by State Avenue; easterly by Fish Road; southerly by the Sakonnet River Bridge and the highway connecting thereto; westerly by the Sakonnet River.
(2)
The area bounded and described as follows: Northerly by the Sakonnet River Bridge and the highway connecting thereto; easterly by a line 1,000 feet east of Main Road; southerly by the Tiverton-Little Compton town line; westerly by the Sakonnet River.
(3)
The area bounded and described as follows: By a line 1,000 feet on each side of Bulgarmarsh Road, extending from Main Road to Stafford Road and Crandall Road.
(4)
The area bounded and described as follows: By a line 1,000 feet on each side of East Road, extending from Main Road to Crandall Road.
(5)
The area bounded and described as follows: By a line 1,000 feet on each side of Stafford Road and Crandall Road, extending from the Rhode Island-Massachusetts line to the Tiverton-Little Compton line.
(Code 1967, § 6-14)
Sec. 10-72. - Target shooting.#
Discharge of any firearm is hereby prohibited in the town, except as follows: (1)
Legal hunting activity as defined by state and local regulations.
(2)
Target shooting at any bona fide range or club, as designated by the council.
(3)
Target shooting on private property by the property owner, or guest with written permission of the property owner. This activity is to be restricted to the period between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. All prudent safety measures shall be exercised to protect the public health.
All activity defined in this section shall be restricted to a minimum distance from any dwelling of 500 feet in all cases. For purposes of this section the word "firearm" shall be defined as any rifle, pistol, or other instrument from which steel or metal are propelled by means of a powder charge. The word "discharge" shall be defined as the operation of a firearm as to cause the ignition of the powder charge with or without the expulsion of a projectile from the firearm.
(Code 1967, § 6-14A)
Sec. 10-73. - Across highways, roads, trails or driveways.#
No person shall hunt with a gun, pursue, shoot at, take or kill any bird or animal along, or upon or across any highway, road, lane, trail or driveway within the town.
(Code 1967, § 6-15)
Sec. 10-74. - Reserved.#
Editor's note— An ordinance of July 25, 2011, § 3, repealed § 10-74, which pertained to on Sunday and derived from the Code of 1967, § 19-3.