S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8337
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
August 5, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to including
attachments to electronic devices within the meaning of the term
"imitation weapon"
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 871 of the general business law,
as added by chapter 475 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
follows:
2. "Imitation weapon" means any device or object made of plastic,
wood, metal or any other material which substantially duplicates or can
reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm, air rifle, pellet gun,
or "B-B" gun, INCLUDING AN ATTACHMENT TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE; unless
such imitation weapon (a) is colored other than black, blue, silver or
aluminum, (b) is marked with a non-removable orange stripe which is at
least one inch in width and runs the entire length of the barrel on each
side and the front end of the barrel, and (c) has a barrel at least one
inch in diameter that is closed for a distance of not less than one-half
inch from the front-end of its barrel with the same material of which
the imitation weapon is made. "Imitation weapon" does not include any
nonfiring replica of an antique firearm, the original of which was
designed, manufactured and produced prior to eighteen hundred ninety-
eight.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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