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September 2023

A Law for the Better Preventing of Fire, no. 4, § 6, N.Y., LAWS, STATUTES, ORDINANCES AND CONST. ETC. (1763 John Holt).

Posted by on September 6, 2023

    VI. AND be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Children, Youth, Apprentices, Servants, or other Persons, do fire and discharge any Gun, Pistol, Leaden-Gun, Rockets, Crackers, Squibs, or other Fire-Works, at any Mark, or at Random, against any Fence, Pales, or other Place in any Street, Lane or Alley, […]

Carrying of Pistols, N.Y.C., ORDINANCES ch. 8, art. 27, §§ 264-267 (1881).

Posted by on August 29, 2023

“Article XXVII. Carrying of Pistols.     SEC. 264. Every person, except judges of the federal, state and city courts, and officers of the general, state and municipal governments, authorized by law to make arrests, and persons to whom permits shall have been issued, as hereinafter provided, who shall have in his possession within the […]

An Ordinance to regulate the government of parks and other public pleasure grounds of The City of New York, at 600 (1903)

Posted by on November 22, 2022

Be it Ordained by the Board of Aldermen of The City of New York, as follows: All persons are forbidden . . .  XXIV. No one shall fire or carry any firearm, fire cracker, torpedo or fire-works, nor make a fire, nor make any oration, nor conduct any religious or other meeting or ceremony within […]

Minutes of Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park for the Year Ending April 30, 1858

Posted by on November 22, 2022

Be it ordained by the Commissioners of the Central Park : All persons are forbidden . . . [t]o carry fire-arms or throw stones or other missiles within it.  (Ordinance adopted at meeting held on March 16, 1858) Full text: Google Books

Ordinances, Rules and Regulations of the Department of Parks of the City of New York 7 (1916)

Posted by on November 22, 2022

§ 17. Disorderly conduct. No person shall, in any park, . . . 8. Fire or carry any firearm, firecracker, torpedo or fireworks. Full Text: HathiTrust 

Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, Ordinances of the Central Park, 1861

Posted by on September 15, 2022

The Board of Commissioners of the Central Park do ordain as follows:  All persons are forbidden—[t]o carry firearms or to throw stones or other missiles within it [Central Park]. Full Text: HathiTrust (subscription required)

N.Y., N.Y. Ordinance Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonality of the City of New-York, image 118-119 (1793).

Posted by on March 27, 2020

(IV) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for the mayor or recorder, or any two Alderman of the said city, upon application made by any inhabitant or inhabitants of the said city, and upon his or their making oath of reasonable cause of suspicion (of […]

N.Y., N.Y. Ordinance Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonality of the City of New-York, image 118-119 (this section starts on image 53 (1793).

Posted by on March 27, 2020

(II) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Than if any person or persons, of what age, sex, or quality soever, from and after the said first day od June next, shall fire and discharge any gun, pistol, rocket, cracker, squib or other fire-work, in any street, lane or ally, garden or other […]