Bill Text: NY S05818 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain warnings concerning gun storage be provided upon the issuance of a hunting license or muzzle-loading privileges.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S05818 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05818-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5818
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 4, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
requiring certain warnings be provided upon the issuance of a hunting
license or muzzle-loading privileges
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 11-0713 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. UPON THE ISSUANCE OF A HUNTING LICENSE OR MUZZLE-LOADING PRIVILEGE,
4 THE ISSUING OFFICER SHALL ISSUE THEREWITH THE FOLLOWING NOTICE IN
5 CONSPICUOUS AND LEGIBLE TYPE STATING THE FOLLOWING:
6 WARNING
7 THE USE OF A LOCKING DEVICE OR SAFETY LOCK IS ONLY ONE ASPECT OF
8 RESPONSIBLE FIREARM STORAGE. FOR INCREASED SAFETY FIREARMS SHOULD BE
9 STORED UNLOADED AND LOCKED IN A LOCATION THAT IS BOTH SEPARATE FROM
10 THEIR AMMUNITION AND INACCESSIBLE TO CHILDREN AND ANY OTHER UNAUTHORIZED
11 PERSON.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10432-03-5
