Bill Text: MI SB0979 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Enrolled

Michigan Senate Bill 979 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Weapons; firearms; definition of pneumatic guns; provide for, and prohibit certain regulations by local units of government. Amends secs. 1, 2, 3 & 4 of 1990 PA 319 (MCL 123.1101 et seq.).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-12-30 - Vetoed By Governor 12/29/2014 [SB0979 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0979-Enrolled.html

STATE OF MICHIGAN 97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Senator Hildenbrand

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 979

AN ACT to amend 1990 PA 319, entitled “An act to prohibit local units of government from imposing certain restrictions on the ownership, registration, purchase, sale, transfer, transportation, or possession of pistols or other firearms, ammunition for pistols or other firearms, or components of pistols or other firearms,” by amending sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 (MCL 123.1101, 123.1102, 123.1103, and 123.1104).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1. As used in this act:

“Firearm” means any weapon which will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an explosive.
“Local unit of government” means a city, village, township, or county.
“Pistol” means that term as defined in section 222 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.222.
“Pneumatic gun” means any implement, designed as a gun, that will expel a BB or pellet by spring, gas, or air. Pneumatic gun includes a paintball gun that expels by pneumatic pressure plastic balls filled with paint for the purpose of marking the point of impact.

Sec. 2. A local unit of government shall not impose special taxation on, enact or enforce any ordinance or regulation pertaining to, or regulate in any other manner the ownership, registration, purchase, sale, transfer, transportation, or possession of pistols, other firearms, or pneumatic guns, ammunition for pistols or other firearms, or components of pistols or other firearms, except as otherwise provided by federal law or a law of this state.

Sec. 3. This act does not prohibit a local unit of government from doing any of the following:

Prohibiting or regulating conduct with a pistol, other firearm, or pneumatic gun that is a criminal offense under state law.
Prohibiting or regulating the transportation, carrying, or possession of pistols, other firearms, or pneumatic guns by employees of that local unit of government in the course of their employment with that local unit of government.
Regulating the possession of pneumatic guns within the local unit of government by requiring that an individual below the age of 16 who is in possession of a pneumatic gun be under the supervision of a parent, a guardian, or an individual 18 years of age or older, except that an ordinance shall not regulate possession of a pneumatic gun on or within private property if the individual below the age of 16 is authorized by a parent or guardian and the property owner or legal possessor to possess the pneumatic gun.
Prohibiting an individual from pointing, waving about, or displaying a pneumatic gun in a threatening manner with the intent to induce fear in another individual.

Sec. 4. This act does not prohibit a city or a charter township from doing any of the following:

Prohibiting the discharge of a pistol or other firearm within the jurisdiction of that city or charter township.
Prohibiting the discharge of pneumatic guns in any area within the jurisdiction of the city or charter township that is so heavily populated as to make that conduct dangerous to the inhabitants of that area, except that an ordinance shall not prohibit the discharge of pneumatic guns at authorized target ranges, on other property where firearms may be discharged, or on or within private property with the permission of the owner or possessor of that property if conducted with reasonable care to prevent a projectile from crossing the bounds of the property.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January 1, 2015.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.