§ 265.35 Prohibited use of weapons.
1. Any person hunting with a dangerous weapon in any county wholly
embraced within the territorial limits of a city is guilty of a class A
misdemeanor.
2. Any person who wilfully discharges a loaded firearm or any other
gun, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, at an aircraft while
such aircraft is in motion in the air or in motion or stationary upon
the ground, or at any railway or street railroad train as defined by the
public service law, or at a locomotive, car, bus or vehicle standing or
moving upon such railway, railroad or public highway, is guilty of a
class D felony if thereby the safety of any person is endangered, and in
every other case, of a class E felony.
3. Any person who, otherwise than in self defense or in the discharge
of official duty, (a) wilfully discharges any species of firearms,
air-gun or other weapon, or throws any other deadly missile, either in a
public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered
thereby, or, in Putnam county, within one-quarter mile of any occupied
school building other than under supervised instruction by properly
authorized instructors although no injury to any person ensues; (b)
intentionally, without malice, points or aims any firearm or any other
gun, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, at or toward any other
person; (c) discharges, without injury to any other person, firearms or
any other guns, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, while
intentionally without malice, aimed at or toward any person; or (d)
maims or injures any other person by the discharge of any firearm or any
other gun, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, pointed or aimed
intentionally, but without malice, at any such person, is guilty of a
class A misdemeanor.
