ORDINANCE NO. 9014

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AMENDING CHAPTER XIV, ARTICLE 4, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS, 2013 EDITION, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO, BY ADDING A SECTION PERTAINING TO THE CRIMINAL CARRYING OF A WEAPON

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS:

SECTION 1: The Code of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 2013 Edition, is hereby amended to enact a new provision which shall read as follows:

                        CRIMINAL CARRYING OF A WEAPON

No person shall engage in the criminal carrying of a weapon.

(A) Criminal carrying of a weapon is knowingly carrying:

(1) Any bludgeon, sand club, metal knuckles or throwing star;

(2) Concealed on one’s person, a billy, blackjack, slungshot or any other dangerous or deadly weapon or instrument of like character;

(3) On one’s person or in any land, water or air vehicle, with intent to use the same unlawfully, a tear gas or smoke bomb or projector or any object containing a noxious liquid, gas or substance.

(B) Exceptions:

(1) No part of this Section prohibiting the carrying of a concealed weapon shall apply to:

(a) Law enforcement officers, or any person summoned by any such officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while actually engaged in assisting such officer.

(b) Wardens, superintendents, directors, security personnel and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of crime, while acting within the scope of their authority.

(c) Members of the armed services or reserve forces of the United States or the Kansas National Guard while in the performance of their official duty, or;

(d) the manufacture of, transportation to, or sale of weapons to a person authorized under subsections (B)(1)(a), (B)(1)(b) and (B)(1)(c) to possess such weapons.

(C) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $2500, or a jail term not to exceed one year, or both such fine and jail term.

(D) As used in this section, "throwing star" means the same as prescribed by 

      K.S.A. 21-6301, and amendments thereto.

PASSED by the Governing Body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, this ____ day of July, 2014.

APPROVED:

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Mike Amyx

                                                                                    Mayor

ATTEST:

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Diane Trybom

Acting City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:                   

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Toni R. Wheeler                                                        

City Attorney

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