HOUSE BILL No. 5998

 

 

October 19, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Chang and Wittenberg and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.

 

     A bill to amend 1927 PA 372, entitled

 

"An act to regulate and license the selling, purchasing,

possessing, and carrying of certain firearms, gas ejecting devices,

and electro-muscular disruption devices; to prohibit the buying,

selling, or carrying of certain firearms, gas ejecting devices, and

electro-muscular disruption devices without a license or other

authorization; to provide for the forfeiture of firearms and

electro-muscular disruption devices under certain circumstances; to

provide for penalties and remedies; to provide immunity from civil

liability under certain circumstances; to prescribe the powers and

duties of certain state and local agencies; to prohibit certain

conduct against individuals who apply for or receive a license to

carry a concealed pistol; to make appropriations; to prescribe

certain conditions for the appropriations; and to repeal all acts

and parts of acts inconsistent with this act,"

 

by amending section 10 (MCL 28.430), as added by 1990 PA 320.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 10. (1) A person who owns a firearm shall, within 5 days

 

after he or she knows his or her firearm is stolen, report the

 

theft to a police agency having jurisdiction over that theft.

 

     (2) A person who owns ammunition shall, within 5 days after he

 


or she knows his or her ammunition is stolen, report the theft to a

 

police agency having jurisdiction over that theft.

 

     (3) (2) A person who fails to report the theft of a firearm or

 

ammunition as required under subsection (1) this section is

 

responsible for a civil violation and may be fined not more than

 

$500.00.guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not

 

more than 90 days or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.