Summary
Statutory Text
782. § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person within said city to carry about the person any concealed pistol, revolver, dirk, bowie knife, billy, sling-shot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons of any kind, excepting only officers of the law in the discharge of their duties; and any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and oil conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalty hereinafter provided.
783. § 2. Any such weapon or weapons, duly adjudged by the Police Judge of said city to have been worn or carried by any person, in violation of the first section of this ordinance, shall be so forfeited or confiscated to the said city of Lincoln, and shall be so adjudged.
784. § 3. Any policeman of the city of Lincoln may within the limits of said city without warrant arrest any person or persons whom such policeman may find in the act of carrying or wearing under their clothes or concealed about their person, any pistol, or revolver, slung shot, or cross-knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, and detain him, her, or theg, in the city jail until a warrant can be procured.
785. § 4. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of the first section of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and be committed until such fine and costs are paid.
786. § 5. The prohibitions of this ordinance shall not apply to the officers or members of the police force of the city when on duty, nor to any officer of any court whose duty may be to serve warrants or to make arrests, nor to persons whose business or occupation may seem to require the carrying of weapons for theii r protection, and who shall have obtained from the Mayor a license so to do.
787. § 6. The Mayor may grant to so many and such persons as he may think proper, licenses to carry concealed weapons, and may revokeany and all of such licenses at his pleasure. Every such license shall state the name, age, occupation, and residence, of the person to whom granted, and shall be good for one year. A fee of fifty cents shall be paid therefor to the City Treasurer, and by him placed in the police fund