Bill Text: FL S2594 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Paintball Guns and Markers [CPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Transportation [S2594 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S2594-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2594 
 
By Senator Siplin 
19-00303-10                                           20102594__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to paintball guns and markers; 
3         defining the terms “paintball gun” and “paintball 
4         marker”; prohibiting a person from carrying a 
5         paintball gun or paintball marker in a vehicle on a 
6         highway; providing specified exceptions; providing 
7         that the act does not apply to a commercial paintball 
8         field, range, or course when passengers are 
9         transported to and from designated player areas; 
10         providing that a violation of the act is a first 
11         degree misdemeanor; providing an effective date. 
12 
13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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15         Section 1. Paintball guns and paintball markers.— 
16         (1) As used in this section, the term “paintball gun” or 
17  “paintball marker” means a device designed and manufactured to 
18  propel, by gas or air, an encapsulated gelatin paintball. 
19         (2) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person may not 
20  carry a paintball gun or paintball marker in a vehicle on a 
21  highway unless: 
22         (a) The paintball gun or marker is disassembled so that the 
23  propellant canister is separate from the rest of the device and 
24  the device contains no paintballs; or 
25         (b) The propellant canister contains no propellant and the 
26  device contains no paintballs. 
27         (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a commercial paintball 
28  field, range, or course when passengers are being transported in 
29  a vehicle by an employee of the commercial field, range, or 
30  course to and from designated player areas. 
31         (4) A person who violates this section commits a 
32  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 
33  775.082 or s. 775.083, Florida Statutes. 
34         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.