9.12.055 Safety standards and specifications.
All shooting ranges licensed pursuant to this chapter shall, at a minimum, comply with the following safety standards and specifications:
(1) All structures, installations, operations and activities shall be located at such a distance from property lines as will protect adjoining properties from hazard, when the ranges are used in accordance with range safety rules and standards.
(2) Range site design features and safety procedures shall be installed and maintained to discourage end rounds from escaping all shooting positions, when such positions are used in accordance with range safety rules and standards.
(3) A plan shall be submitted with the license application which shows the location of all buildings, parking areas and access points; safety features of the firing range; elevations of range showing target area, backdrops or butts; and approximate location of buildings on adjoining property.
(4) A safety plan shall be submitted which cites rules for each range. This should include sign-in procedures, if applicable, restrictions on activities and the use of ranges, and every safety plan shall prohibit loaded weapons, except at shooting positions and except for holstered handguns.
(5) All commercial shooting ranges shall have at least one safety officer on duty at all times shooting activities occur; provided, that when three (3) or fewer shooters are present, each may act as his own safety officer.
(6) When urban residentially-zoned property or residential streets are located adjacent to property containing an outdoor shooting range, warning signs shall be installed and maintained along shooting range property lines. These signs shall be conspicuously posted at intervals of at least one for every one hundred (100) feet, and the range shall be fenced, when practical.
(7) Shooting ranges shall be used for the shooting activities they were designed to accommodate unless redesigned to safely accommodate new shooting activities.
(8) Ranges will include an adequate backstop or adequate range for shotdrop.
(9) All shooting ranges shall provide a readily accessible telephone available to range participants and spectators for the purpose of contacting emergency medical services.
(10) A person responsible for the shooting range, which, in the case of commercial shooting ranges means the safety officer or his designee, shall, within twenty-four (24) hours, report in writing to the Clark County sheriff’s office and Clark County planning department all accidents resulting from the discharge of firearms in use on the range.
(11) On private shooting ranges, shooting activities shall only occur between 8:00 a.m. and dusk unless otherwise restricted by the shooting range license itself. On commercial shooting ranges, outdoor shooting activities shall only occur between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., unless otherwise restricted by the shooting license itself.
(12) In reviewing license applications for safety and upon reinspection for existing shooting ranges, the sheriff and the Clark County planning department shall be guided by the current edition of the “NRA Range Source Book” published by the National Rifle Association. (Sec. 5 of Ord. 1995-12-31; amended by Sec. 1 (Att. A § 1) of Ord. 2011-08-08)