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                                         6014
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     July 10, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       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    S 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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