HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION 1975-38
CITY OF KENAI
RESOLUTION NO. 75-38
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A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, AS AMENDED,
DESIGNATING A CERTAIN PLACE WITHIN THE CITY LIIVIITS AS BEING A PROPER PLACE FOR
THE DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS .
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Kenai ie enacting Ordinance No. 262-75 which declares
that it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge a firearm in any place within the City
limits other than in an area specifically designated by Council, and
~NHEREAS, the Council of the City of Kenai. pursuant to Ordinance 262-75 may designate
by resolution areas or places within the City limits where a firearm may be discharged, and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Kenai has found the following area within the City
limits, with the exceptions noted hereafter, to be a proper place for the discharge of firearms.
NOW, THEREFORE, AE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Kenai, Alaska, as
lollows:
Section 1. A shotgun may be discharged in the following described area only for
the purpose of taking water fowl, with the exceptions set out in Section 2:
Beginning at the centerline of the mouth of the Kenai River where the westerly
line of Section 5, RllW, T5N, Seward Meridian crosses the Kenai River, thence
easterly along the centerline of the Kenai River to the east line of Section 5,
RIIW, T5N, thence southerly along the centerline of the Kenai River to a point
100 yards upstream of the small boat loading ramp on the Kenai River, thence
easterly to the living natural tree line, thence following the now natural living
tree line to within 100 yards of the Kenai River Bridge crossing road , thence
southerly, maintaining a distance of 100 yards from the Kenai River Bridge road
and parallel to said road to the north high water bank of the Kenai River, thence
easterly along the north high water bank of the Kenai River to a point 100 yards
east of the Kenai River Bridge crossing thence northerly maintaining a 100 yard
distance from :he Kenai River Bridge crossing road to a point where maximum
high tide waters reach, thence following this tide line easterly to a point
where the tide line intersects the west bank of the Kenai River downstream
of the Loretta Knackstedt residence, thence easterly to the centerline of the Kenai
River, thence northerly on the centerline of the Kenai River to a point where the
river then flows east to west thence easterly along the centerline of the Kenai
River to a point where the Kenai River flows south to north, thence easterly
to the west line of Section 11, RllW, T5N, thence on a line due east to the next
west bank, upstream, of the Kenai River, thence following the natural maximum
high water bank of the Kenai River upstream, including all sloughs, backwaters
and in-flowing tributaries, a~ far as navigable from the main stream of the Kenai
River, to a point where the Kenai City limits crosses the Kenai River on the
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south line of Section 7, R10W, TSN, thence following the Citq limits line on
south side of the Kenai River to a point where the City limits terminates at the
tfde line of Cook Inlet (section line dividing Section 7, RUW, TSN. and Section
18, AUW, T5N).
It shall be unlawful to discharge any firearm other than a shotgun in the above-described
area.
Section 2 . Within the area above-described, it shall be unlawful to disehar fe a
shotgun at any point which is within 100 yards of a residential or commercial structure
or of a maintained street or highway .
Section 3. Nothing contained herein shall preclude the retrieval of wounded water
fowrl by normal migratory bird hunting methods and means from the areas designated
as closed to shooting, with regard to safe and prudent use of firearms within these
areas while retrieving wounded birds .
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAi, ALASKA, this and day of September,
1875.
ATTBST:
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RESOLUTION NO. 75-38 -Page Two
CITY OF RENAL
J S A. ELSON, MAYOR
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