STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           829

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting the possession
          and use of live ammunition at a film production facility or  a  quali-
          fied film production facility

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

     1    Section 1. Section 265.35 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  (a)  Any  person  who  possesses or uses live ammunition at a film
     4  production facility or a qualified film  production  facility,  as  such
     5  terms are defined in section twenty-four of the tax law, shall be guilty
     6  of a class E felony.
     7    (b) All persons employed or present at a film production facility or a
     8  qualified film production facility, as such terms are defined in section
     9  twenty-four  of  the  tax law, shall receive proper training on the safe
    10  use, handling, storage and transportation of firearms.
    11    (c) The superintendent of police shall design and implement a  firearm
    12  safety  training program that shall be completed by all persons employed
    13  or present at a film production facility or a qualified film  production
    14  facility,  if  firearms shall be used or handled at such facility, prior
    15  to such use and handling.
    16    (d) For purposes of this section the  term  "firearm"  shall  include,
    17  prop guns, rubber guns, plastic guns, non-guns, flintlock guns, pistols,
    18  machine  guns,  rifles  and  shotguns that discharge blank cartridges or
    19  ammunition.
    20    § 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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