Senate Bill sb0712

    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 712

    By Senator Siplin





    19-286-07

  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 paintball marker in

  6         a vehicle on the highway; providing specified

  7         exceptions; providing that the act does not

  8         apply to a commercial paintball field, range,

  9         or course when passengers are transported to

10         and from designated player areas; providing

11         that a violation of the act is a first-degree

12         misdemeanor; providing an effective date.

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

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

17         (1)  As used in this section, the term "paintball gun"

18  or "paintball marker" means a device designed and manufactured

19  to propel, by gas or air, an encapsulated gelatin paintball.

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

21  may not carry a paintball gun or paintball marker in a vehicle

22  on the highway unless:

23         (a)  The paintball gun or paintball marker is

24  disassembled so that the propellant canister is separate from

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

26  gelatin paintballs; or

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

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

29  and the device is empty of encapsulated gelatin paintballs.

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

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

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 712
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 1  transported in a vehicle by an employee of the commercial

 2  field, range, or course to and from designated player areas.

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

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

 5  775.082 or s. 775.083, Florida Statutes.

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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10    Prohibits a person from carrying a paintball gun or
      paintball marker in a vehicle on the highway. Provides
11    specified exceptions. Provides that the act does not
      apply to a commercial paintball field, range, or course
12    when passengers are transported to and from designated
      player areas. Provides that a person who violates the act
13    commits a misdemeanor of the first degree. Provides
      criminal penalties.
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