Opinion No. Oag 30-88, (1988)

C.D. BESADNY, Secretary Department of Natural Resources

You ask whether an ordinance enacted by the Town of Menasha, Winnebago County, impermissibly infringes on the state's authority to regulate hunting. The ordinance is titled "Offenses Endangering Public Safety: Discharging and Carrying Dangerous Weapons Prohibited." It purports to ban all use of firearms and bows and arrows within the town, with exceptions for shooting galleries, cleaning of firearms, carp fishing by bow and arrow and destruction of a property owner's domestic animals on the owner's property. However, the ordinance then…