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Ordinance no. 10, §§ 1-4, THE LOMPOC RECORD, Aug. 25, 1888 at 2.

  • Year:
  • 1888
Category:

Carrying Weapons, Categorical Bans, Registration, Taxation, and Purchasing of Weapons,

Jurisdiction:

Municipal,

"Ordinance No. 10.
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An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons and Fixing the Penalty therefor.
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The Board of Trustees of the Town of Lompoc do Ordain as follows:

    SECTION 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person not being a public officer or traveler, or not having a written permit from the President of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Lompoc, to wear or carry concealed, within the corporate limits of the Town of Lompoc, any pistol, revolver, dirk, stiletto or other dangerous or deadly weapon.

    SEC. 2.  Every person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the town jail, if there be one, and if not, then by imprisonment in the county jail of Santa Barbara county, for not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

    SEC. 3.  Such persons, and no others, shall be termed “travelers” within the meaning of this Ordinance, as may be actually engaged in making a journey at the time.

    SEC. 4.  The President of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Lompoc may grant written permission to any peaceable person whose profession or occupation may require him to be out at late hours of the night within the corporate limits of the said Town of Lompoc, to carry concealed deadly weapons for his own protection.

    Passed August 21, 1888.

H. S. RUDOLPH
President of the Board of Trustees.

    I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was passed by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Lompoc and signed by its President at its meeting on the first day of August A. D. 1888.

HENSON POLAND
Clerk of the Town of Lompoc."

Full Text (From Newspapers.com): 1888, The Lompoc Record Sat., Aug 25, 1888

"Ordinance No. 10: An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, and Fixing the Penalty Therefor." The Lompoc Record, August 21, 1888, p. 2. Number 23; Volume 14. 

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