Bill Text: NY A00153 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes attachments to electronic devices within the meaning of the term "imitation weapon".

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A00153 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00153-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           153
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. D'URSO, ORTIZ, SIMON, JAFFEE, CRESPO, COLTON,
          MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  CROUCH,  DAVILA  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to including
          attachments to electronic devices  within  the  meaning  of  the  term
          "imitation weapon"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 871 of the general  business  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  475  of  the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. "Imitation weapon" means any device  or  object  made  of  plastic,
     5  wood,  metal or any other material which substantially duplicates or can
     6  reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm, air rifle, pellet  gun,
     7  or  "B-B"  gun,  including an attachment to an electronic device; unless
     8  such imitation weapon (a) is colored other than black, blue,  silver  or
     9  aluminum,  (b)  is marked with a non-removable orange stripe which is at
    10  least one inch in width and runs the entire length of the barrel on each
    11  side and the front end of the barrel, and (c) has a barrel at least  one
    12  inch in diameter that is closed for a distance of not less than one-half
    13  inch  from  the  front-end of its barrel with the same material of which
    14  the imitation weapon is made. "Imitation weapon" does  not  include  any
    15  nonfiring  replica  of  an  antique  firearm,  the original of which was
    16  designed, manufactured and produced prior to  eighteen  hundred  ninety-
    17  eight.
    18    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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