Bill Text: NY A08982 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds components sold with instructions to combine such components to create combustion or detonation to the definition of "explosives".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-04 - reported referred to ways and means [A08982 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08982-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8982

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to adding components sold
          with instructions to combine such components to create  combustion  or
          detonation  to  the  definition of "explosives"; and to repeal certain
          provisions of such law relating thereto

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 465 of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the
     2  laws of 2019 amending the labor law relating to  licenses  to  purchase,
     3  use,  or  store  certain  compounds,  as  proposed  in legislative bills
     4  numbers S.1456 and A.4452, is REPEALED.
     5    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 451 of the  labor  law,  as  amended  by
     6  section  2  of  part CC of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
     7  read as follows:
     8    1. "Explosives" means  gunpowder,  powders  used  for  blasting,  high
     9  explosives,  blasting materials, detonating fuses, detonators, pyrotech-
    10  nics and other detonating agents, fireworks and dangerous  fireworks  as
    11  defined  in  section  270.00  of the penal law, smokeless powder and any
    12  chemical compound or any mechanical mixture containing any oxidizing and
    13  combustible units, or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities,
    14  or packing that ignition by fire, friction,  concussion,  percussion  or
    15  detonation  of  any  part  thereof may cause and is intended to cause an
    16  explosion, but shall not include gasoline,  kerosene,  naphtha,  turpen-
    17  tine,  benzine,  acetone,  ethyl  ether,  benzol  or quantities of black
    18  powder not exceeding five pounds for use in firing of  antique  firearms
    19  or artifacts or replicas thereof. Fixed ammunition and primers for small
    20  arms,  pyrotechnic  devices  which  are  designed for and being used for
    21  legitimate wildlife management or controls,  safety  fuses  and  matches
    22  shall  not  be  deemed to be explosives when, as provided by regulation,
    23  the individual units contain any  of  the  above-mentioned  articles  or
    24  substances  in  such limited quantity, of such nature and so packed that
    25  it is impossible to produce an explosion of such units to the injury  of
    26  life,  limb or property. The term "explosives" shall also include two or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00462-02-9
        A. 8982                             2

     1  more components that are advertised and sold together with  instructions
     2  on  how  to  combine  the  components  to  create any device designed or
     3  specially adapted to facilitate a detonation or combustion.
     4    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     5  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the labor law relating
     6  to licenses to purchase, use, or store certain compounds, as proposed in
     7  legislative bills numbers S.1456 and A.4452, takes effect.