§ 5-118. General regulations.

(a)

No skeet or shooting gallery shall be constructed or operated within the city unless the plans for such are submitted to the building inspection division. The skeet club or shooting gallery shall comply with all provisions of the Construction Code. The approval of the chief of police shall be required as to the location of any skeet club or shooting gallery.

(b)

The room, place or enclosure wherein the firing of firearms is to take place at a shooting gallery shall comply with all provisions of this section and shall not be used for any other purpose whatsoever during the progress of firing.

(c)

The rear wall and side walls to a point on a line with the firing position shall be of bullet proof construction in accordance with the following specifications:

(1)

Not less than six-inch masonry or solid concrete.

(2)

Wood stud and plaster walls or equivalent construction, faced with one inch boards, backed with one-quarter-inch steel plate. Floors and ceilings of joist construction shall be considered bullet proof.

(d)

All openings of any nature in the rear and side walls shall be protected with one inch board backed by a one-quarter inch steel plate.

(e)

Open steel truss ceilings shall be protected by a one-quarter inch steel baffle plate inclined toward the firing position. The plate shall be as wide as the total width of the target and not less than five feet in depth, and shall be suspended from the bottom cord of the trusses to the intersection of two sight lines drawn from the elevation of the firearm at the prone firing position to the bottom of the furthest truss, and from the elevation of the firearm at the off-hand firing position to a point five feet above the floor at the target. Baffle plates less than 15 feet from the firing position shall be protected with one inch boards.

(f)

Exposed steel girders less than 15 feet (horizontal or vertical) from the firing position shall be protected with one inch boards.

(g)

In addition to the above protection, there shall be provided a one-quarter inch steel stop plate, directly in the rear of targets, extending not less than eight inches beyond the outer ring of the bull's-eye, and inclined towards the firing position at an angle of 45 degrees. The stop plate shall be housed, on sides and top, with corrugated sheet metal extending not less than one foot beyond the top edge of the plate. At the base of the inclined stop plate there shall be provided a sand box with not less than six inches of sand and of sufficient width so as to absorb all of the bullets ricocheted by the stop plate as fired from the firing position.

(h)

Vertical stop plates existing on October 23, 1957, will be accepted with the same regulations as is provided for inclined stop plates, except that the thickness of the stop plate shall be not less than five-sixteenths of an inch and that the corrugated sheet metal housing shall extend not less than three feet beyond the face of the stop plate.

(i)

Entrance to that part of the licensed area situated between the firing position and targets shall be protected with 36-inch guard rails or equivalent protection. No person except the person in charge shall be permitted within the above described area during the progress of firing.

(Code 1968, § 36-81; Ord. No. 72-2007, § 1, 11-1-72; Ord. No. 02-399, § 16, 5-15-02)