Senate Bill S7308

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Adds components sold with instructions to combine such components to create combustion or detonation to the definition of explosives; repealer

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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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2019-S7308 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8982
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §465, amd §451, Lab L (as proposed in S.1456 & A.4452)

2019-S7308 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds components sold with instructions to combine such components to create combustion or detonation to the definition of "explosives".

2019-S7308 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7308 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7308
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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 numbers S.1456 and A.4452, is REPEALED.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
              

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