Bill Text: IN SB0006 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Knives with automatic blades.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-31 - First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy [SB0006 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2012-SB0006-Amended.html

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January 11, 2012

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SENATE BILL No. 6

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DIGEST OF SB 6 (Updated January 10, 2012 12:14 pm - DI 106)

Citations Affected: IC 35-47.

Synopsis: Knives with automatic blades. Removes a provision that makes it a Class B misdemeanor for a person to manufacture, possess, display, offer, sell, lend, give away, or purchase certain knives with blades that opens automatically.

Effective: July 1, 2012.

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Tomes , Nugent, Banks, Hume, Arnold

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    January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters.
    January 10, 2012, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.

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January 11, 2012

Second Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2012)

PRINTING CODE. Amendments: Whenever an existing statute (or a section of the Indiana Constitution) is being amended, the text of the existing provision will appear in this style type, additions will appear in this style type, and deletions will appear in this style type.
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SENATE BILL No. 6

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 35-47-5-2; (12)SB0006.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 35-47-5-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2012]: Sec. 2. It is a Class B misdemeanor for a person to manufacture, possess, display, offer, sell, lend, give away, or purchase any knife with a detachable blade that
        (1) opens automatically; or
        (2) may be propelled ejected from the handle as a projectile
by hand pressure applied to a button, device containing means of gas, a spring, or any other device contained in the handle of the knife.

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