Bill Text: NY A01428 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the distribution and sale of certain lasers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01428 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01428-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1428 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to restricting the sale of certain lasers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.80 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 240.80 Sale of a laser. 4 1. It shall be unlawful to distribute, sell or offer for sale a laser, 5 as defined by paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section 240.76 of 6 this article, which exceeds one milliwatt in output power. 7 2. This section shall not apply to lasers designed to be affixed to a 8 firearm or to lasers used by or under the supervision of a person 9 licensed under article one hundred thirty-one of the education law. 10 Sale of a laser is a class A misdemeanor. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05050-01-3