Senate Bill sb0582

    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 582

    By Senator Siplin





    19-190-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to paintball guns and markers;

  3         defining the terms "paintball gun" and

  4         "paintball marker"; prohibiting a person from

  5         carrying a paintball gun or a paintball marker

  6         in a vehicle on the highway; providing

  7         specified exceptions; providing that the act

  8         does not apply to a commercial paintball field,

  9         range, or course operator when the operator

10         transports passengers to and from designated

11         player areas; providing that a violation of the

12         act is a first-degree misdemeanor; providing an

13         effective date.

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15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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17         Section 1.  Paintball guns and paintball markers.--

18         (1)  As used in this section, the term:

19         (a)  "Paintball gun" means a device designed and

20  manufactured to propel, by gas or air, an encapsulated gelatin

21  paintball.

22         (b)  "Paintball marker" means a device designed and

23  manufactured to propel, by gas or air, an encapsulated gelatin

24  paintball.

25         (2)  Except as set forth in subsection (3), a person

26  may not carry a paintball gun or a paintball marker in a

27  vehicle on the highway unless:

28         (a)  The paintball gun or paintball marker is

29  disassembled so that the propellant canister is separate from

30  the rest of the device and the device is empty of encapsulated

31  gelatin paintballs; or

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 582
    19-190-06




 1         (b)  The propellant canister of the paintball gun or

 2  paintball marker has been emptied of its gas or air propellant

 3  and the device is empty of encapsulated gelatin paintballs.

 4         (3)  Subsection (2) does not apply to a commercial

 5  paintball field, range, or course when passengers are being

 6  transported by the commercial field, range, or course operator

 7  to and from designated player areas.

 8         (4)  A person who violates this section commits a

 9  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.

10  775.082 or s. 775.083, Florida Statutes.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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14                          SENATE SUMMARY

15    Prohibits a person from carrying a paintball gun or a
      paintball marker in a vehicle on the highway. Provides
16    specified exceptions. Provides that the act does not
      apply to a commercial paintball field, range, or course
17    operator when the operator transports passengers to and
      from designated player areas. Provides that a person who
18    violates the act commits a misdemeanor of the first
      degree. Provides criminal penalties.
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