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                                   8982
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to adding components sold
   with instructions to combine such components to create  combustion  or
   detonation  to  the  definition of "explosives"; and to repeal certain
   provisions of such law relating thereto

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 465 of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the
 laws of 2019 amending the labor law relating to  licenses  to  purchase,
 use,  or  store  certain  compounds,  as  proposed  in legislative bills
 numbers S.1456 and A.4452, is REPEALED.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 451 of the  labor  law,  as  amended  by
 section  2  of  part CC of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
 read as follows:
   1. "Explosives" means  gunpowder,  powders  used  for  blasting,  high
 explosives,  blasting materials, detonating fuses, detonators, pyrotech-
 nics and other detonating agents, fireworks and dangerous  fireworks  as
 defined  in  section  270.00  of the penal law, smokeless powder and any
 chemical compound or any mechanical mixture containing any oxidizing and
 combustible units, or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities,
 or packing that ignition by fire, friction,  concussion,  percussion  or
 detonation  of  any  part  thereof may cause and is intended to cause an
 explosion, but shall not include gasoline,  kerosene,  naphtha,  turpen-
 tine,  benzine,  acetone,  ethyl  ether,  benzol  or quantities of black
 powder not exceeding five pounds for use in firing of  antique  firearms
 or artifacts or replicas thereof. Fixed ammunition and primers for small
 arms,  pyrotechnic  devices  which  are  designed for and being used for
 legitimate wildlife management or controls,  safety  fuses  and  matches
 shall  not  be  deemed to be explosives when, as provided by regulation,
 the individual units contain any  of  the  above-mentioned  articles  or
 substances  in  such limited quantity, of such nature and so packed that
 it is impossible to produce an explosion of such units to the injury  of
 life,  limb or property. THE TERM "EXPLOSIVES" SHALL ALSO INCLUDE TWO OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00462-02-9

 A. 8982                             2
 
 MORE COMPONENTS THAT ARE ADVERTISED AND SOLD TOGETHER WITH  INSTRUCTIONS
 ON  HOW  TO  COMBINE  THE  COMPONENTS  TO  CREATE ANY DEVICE DESIGNED OR
 SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO FACILITATE A DETONATION OR COMBUSTION.
   §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the labor law relating
 to licenses to purchase, use, or store certain compounds, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S.1456 and A.4452, takes effect.