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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 24 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1988, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 24~70(a), 24-75(c), 24-276, and 24-317 (b) AND (c), BY ENACTING SECTION 24-249, AND BY REPEALING SECTIONS 24-10 and 24-11 THEREOF, PErtAINING TO MISCELLANEOUS CRIMINAL OFFENSES. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia: 1. That Sections 24-70 (a), 24-75(c), 24-276, and 24-317 (b) and (c) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1988, be amended and reordained to read as follows: Section 24-70. Discharging firearm across or within streets. (a) If any person discharges a firearm any road, or within the right-of-way thereof, street, he shall, for each offense, be guilty misdemeanor. in or across or in any of a Class 4 Section 24-75. Carrying concealed weapon - Permit. (c) No fee shall be charged for the issuance of a permit under this section to a person who has retired from service as a magistrate in the Commonwealth of Virginia or as a law-enforcement officer with the department of state police or with a sheriff or police department, bureau or force of any political subdivision of the commonwealth, after completing twenty (20) years' service or after reaching age fifty-five (55), nor to any person who has retired after completing twenty (20) years' service or after reaching age fifty-five (55) from service as a law enforcement officer with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Secret Service Agency, Drug Enforcement Agency or Naval Investigative Service. Section 24-276. Obstructing justice by threats or force. (a) If any person without just cause knowingly obstructs a judge, magistrate, justice, juror, witness attorney for the Commonwealth or any law enforcement officer in the performance of his duties as such or fails or refuses without just cause to cease such obstruction when requested to do so by such judge, magistrate, justice, juror, witness, attorney for the Com~.onwealth or law enforcement officer, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.