STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           896
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          cases  and  covers  for  wireless  communications  devices  which  are
          imitation weapons
          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 and a new subdi-
     3  vision 3 is added to read as follows:
     4    2. "Imitation weapon" means any device or object, including,  but  not
     5  limited  to, any case or cover for a wireless communication device, made
     6  of plastic, wood, metal or any other material which substantially dupli-
     7  cates or can reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm, air rifle,
     8  pellet gun, or "B-B" gun; unless such imitation weapon  (a)  is  colored
     9  other than black, blue, silver or aluminum, (b) is marked with a non-re-
    10  movable  orange  stripe which is at least one inch in width and runs the
    11  entire length of the barrel on each  side  and  the  front  end  of  the
    12  barrel,  and  (c)  has  a  barrel  at least one inch in diameter that is
    13  closed for a distance of not less than one-half inch from the  front-end
    14  of  its  barrel  with the same material of which the imitation weapon is
    15  made. "Imitation weapon" does not include any nonfiring  replica  of  an
    16  antique  firearm,  the  original of which was designed, manufactured and
    17  produced prior to eighteen hundred ninety-eight.
    18    3. "Wireless communications device" means  a  wireless  communications
    19  device  as  defined  in subdivision nine of section three hundred one of
    20  the county law.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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