Senate Bill S896

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Includes cases and covers for cellular telephones, within the prohibitions related to imitation weapons

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S896 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §871, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S6014

2017-S896 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes cases and covers for cellular telephones, within the prohibitions related to imitation weapons.

2017-S896 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S896 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    896
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   cases  and  covers  for  wireless  communications  devices  which  are
   imitation weapons

   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 and a new subdi-
 vision 3 is added to read as follows:
   2. "Imitation weapon" means any device or object, INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO, ANY CASE OR COVER FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, made
 of plastic, wood, metal or any other material which substantially dupli-
 cates or can reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm, air rifle,
 pellet gun, or "B-B" gun; unless such imitation weapon  (a)  is  colored
 other than black, blue, silver or aluminum, (b) is marked with a non-re-
 movable  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.
   3. "WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE" MEANS  A  WIRELESS  COMMUNICATIONS
 DEVICE  AS  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION NINE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE OF
 THE COUNTY LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03813-01-7

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