Bill Text: NY S07308 | 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: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-28 - referred to codes [S07308 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07308-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7308

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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     4  numbers S.1456 and A.4452, is REPEALED.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
        S. 7308                             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.