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City of San Mateo Municipal Code.

10.26.020 EXCEPTIONS.

The provisions of Section 10.26.010 shall not apply to the following:

(a) To police officers, sheriffs, constables, marshals or other police officers, or any person summoned by any such officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace, or persons who are members of the armed services of the United States, or the National Guard, while such persons are acting in the lawful discharge of their duties;

(b) To persons using firearms in the lawful defense of self, third persons, or the user's property;

(c) To persons discharging or firing such firearms or causing them to be discharged or fired at a firing, shooting or target range authorized, established or maintained by a governmental entity with the consent of the operator and under supervision of a person qualified to be in charge of such range.