Virginia
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The Virginia Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the diverse regions, history, and developments within Virginia. Here, you'll find Collection that represent various jurisdictions and sectors, providing a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals.
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Item Open Access The Charters and Ordinances of the City of Richmond, with the Declaration of Rights, and Constitution of Virginia, at 227, An Ordinance Concerning Nuisances Other Than in the Streets, § 11 (1859)(General Publisher, 1859)If any person shall sell, or expose for sale in this city, any torpedos, popcrackers, squibs, or other fire-works, of any kind whatever, except in packages containing each at least one hundred, or shall without permission in writing from the mayor, discharge, or set off, in any street or alley of the city, any balloon, rocket, torpedo, popcracker, fireworks or any combination of gunpowder, or any other combustible or dangerous material; or if any person shall, except under the fortieth section of the ordinance concerning streets, without necessity fire or discharge in this city any cannon, gun, pistol, or other fire-arms of any kind, or shall make therein any unusual noise, whereby the inhabitants thereof may be alarmed, or raise or fly a kite in this city, or if any auctioneer shall use any bell or herald to notify the public of any sale, except of real property, every such person herein offending, shall pay a fine of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars.Item Open Access Ordinances of the Corporation of the City of Richmond, Chap 26, §13 (10 May, 1830).(General Publisher, 1830)That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to fire or discharge any Gun, Pistol, Fowling-Piece or Fire-Arms, or to make any other unusual noise within the limits of this City, whereby the inhabitants thereof may be alarmed, except in cases of necessity or in the performance of some public and lawful act of duty, nor to discharge or set-off any Rocket, Cracker, Torpedo, Squib or Balloon, containing any substance in a state of combustion, or other Fire-works within the said City, without permission first had and obtained in writing, from the Mayor of the City, under the penalty of six dollars and sixty-six cents for each offence, if freeItem Open Access The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia, at 108, ch. 70, § 1 (1892)(General Publisher, 1873)If any person, in any street or public alley, shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or play bandy, or throw snow balls, stones or other missiles, or discharge arrows from a bow or cross-bow, he shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars.Item Open Access THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG, VA 116 (Thomas D. Davis ed., 1887)(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, other fire-arm, fireworks, or popcrackers without written consent of the mayor, or fire any cannon within one hundred yards of any dwelling-house. Violators fined not less than one dollar but no more than ten dollars.Item Open Access Laws of the Town of Alexandria, VA: To prevent accidents... Sec. 3, No person to discharge any fire arms (1800).(General Publisher, 1800)Sec. III. No person shall discharge any Musket, Fowling-piece, Pistol, or other Fire Arms, within the limits of the corporation, unless in defence of his or her person or proprety, under the penalty of One Dollar for each offence.Item Open Access 1901–02 Va. Acts 526, ch. 467, § 35, pt. 8(General Publisher, 1902)To direct the location of all building for storing gunpowder, fire-crackers, or other fireworks manufactured or prepared therefrom, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine, camphene, burning fluid, or other combustible material; to regulate the exhibition of fireworks, the discharge of fire-arms, the use of candles and lights in barns, stables, or other buildings, and to regulate or restrain the making of bonfires in streets and yards.Item Open Access 1902 Ordinances of the City of Norfolk, Va., at 262, ch. 62, § 561 (passed 1899).(General Publisher, 1899).No person shall discharge a fire arm or bring any dog in the park.Item Open Access Thomas D. Davis, The Code of the City of Lynchburg, Va., Containing the Charter of 1880, with the Amendments of 1884, 1886 and 1887, and the General Ordinances in Force July 1st, 1887, Also a Digest of Acts of Assembly and of Ordinances Affecting the Rights and Interests of the City of Lynchburg and its Citizens, Together with a Brief Sketch, Historical and Statistical, at 116, ch. 19, § 14 (1887)(General Publisher, 1887)No person shall set off any fireworks or explode any popcrackers within the city limits. No person shall discharge any gun, pistol or other fire-arm within the city limits. No person shall, without the written consent of the Mayor, fire a cannon in the city, nor shall any cannon be fired within one hundred yards of any dwelling-house without the consent of the owner or occupant of such house. For violations of this section, the penalty shall be not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.Item Open Access 1885-86 Va. Acts 275, ch. 258, § 10(General Publisher, 1885)Any person who shall willfully destroy, injure or remove any tombstone or monument placed in the said cemetery . . . or shall shoot of or discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm within the said enclosure, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars. . .Item Open Access The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Richmond, at 196-197, ch. 34, § 42 (1869)(General Publisher, 1869)If any person engaged in military exercise shall fire or discharge, in any street or public alley of this city, any cannon, gun, pistol, or any other firearms, except on the fourth of July, the twenty-second of February and the nineteenth day of October, or at military burial or some extraordinary occasion allowed by the Mayor (and by him notified through the newspaper, or by posting handbills or otherwise), or if any person shall, in any street or public alley in said city, play at bandy or throw snowballs, stones or other missiles, or discharge arrows form a bow or cross-bow, or blow a horn, he shall be fined not less than one nor more than ten dollars.]