STATE OF NEW YORK
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8324
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 5, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Consumer Affairs and 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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