Ordinance 31-06OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
ORDINANCE NO. 31-06
AMENDING THE CITY OF DUBUQUE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 33,
OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS, BY ADOPTING A NEW SECTION
33-17 HUNTING AND TARGET PRACTICE PERMITTED, AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ISSUE AN ANNUAL PERMIT TO A PROPERTY OWNER ALLOWING
HUNTING AND TARGET PRACTICE WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE
CITY UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances is amended by adding the
following new Section 33-17:
Sec. 33-17: Hunting and Target Practice Permitted:
(a) Sections 33-7 and 33-11 notwithstanding, the City Manager may issue an
annual permit to a property owner for hunting and target practice within the corporate
limits of the city on the owner's property, if the City Manager determines that the
property meets the following conditions:
(1) The property is zoned AG -Agricultural;
(2) The property is not less than ten (10) contiguous acres or more in
size;
(3) The property owner agrees to be present to supervise target
practice on the owner's property; and
(4) Allowing hunting or target practice on the property will not
constitute a danger to public safety;
(b) An application to allow hunting or target practice shall be filed with the City
Manager on a form provided by the City Manager. The application shall include the
following information:
(1) The name, address and telephone number of the applicant;
(2) The address where the hunting or target practice will take place;
(3) A site plan shall be a dimension drawing showing the following:
• North arrow;
• Property lines;
• Location of buildings on the subject property and
dimensions;
• Location of buildings on adjacent property, public
streets, recreational trails or public waters.
Falsification of information on an application shall be grounds for denial or
revocation of a permit.
(c) The City Manager shall, upon consideration of the application and the
information required herein, approve or reject the application. A permit shall be valid for
a period of one year from the date thereof.
(d) At the time of filing the application, the applicant shall pay to the city a non-
refundable permit fee established by the City Manager.
(e) A permit may be revoked or suspended by the City Manager by written notice
for a violation of any of the provisions of this section or any other ordinances of the city
or the laws of the United States or the state of Iowa. The permittee may file with the
City Clerk a written notice of appeal to the City Council from the suspension or
revocation.
(f) A hunter shall comply with all state and local laws, rules, regulations and
ordinances governing hunting;
(g) Firearms or other weapons authorized for hunting and target practice shall be
limited to bow and arrow, air gun, or shotgun with shot ammunition size 4-9 excluding
slugs; the use of rifles, pistols, deer slugs, and black powder rifles and all other firearms
or other weapons is prohibited.
(h) The permittee shall notify Police Dispatch at the Dubuque Law Enforcement
Center, on the day on which hunting or target practice will occur and prior to the
commencement of any hunting or target practice, of the location where the hunting or
target practice will occur.
(i) A hunter or a person engaged in target practice shall not discharge a firearm
or other weapon in the direction of any person, livestock, building, public street,
recreational trail or public waters.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect upon publication.
Passed, approved and adopted this 1st day of May, 2006.
/s/Roy D. Buol, Mayor
Attest:
/s/Jeanne F. Schneider, CMC
City Clerk
Published officially in the Telegraph Herald Newspaper the 5th day of May, 2006.
/s/Jeanne F. Schneider, CMC
City Clerk
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