Florida Senate - 2009                                     SB 778
       
       
       
       By Senator Siplin
       
       
       
       
       19-00711-09                                            2009778__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to paintball guns and markers;
    3         defining the terms “paintball gun” and “paintball
    4         marker”; prohibiting a person from carrying a
    5         paintball gun or paintball marker in a vehicle on a
    6         highway; providing specified exceptions; providing
    7         that the act does not apply to a commercial paintball
    8         field, range, or course when passengers are
    9         transported to and from designated player areas;
   10         providing that a violation of the act is a first
   11         degree misdemeanor; providing an effective date.
   12         
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14         
   15         Section 1. Paintball guns and paintball markers.—
   16         (1) As used in this section, the term “paintball gun” or
   17  “paintball marker” means a device designed and manufactured to
   18  propel, by gas or air, an encapsulated gelatin paintball.
   19         (2) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person may not
   20  carry a paintball gun or paintball marker in a vehicle on a
   21  highway unless:
   22         (a) The paintball gun or marker is disassembled so that the
   23  propellant canister is separate from the rest of the device and
   24  the device contains no paintballs; or
   25         (b) The propellant canister contains no propellant and the
   26  device contains no paintballs.
   27         (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a commercial paintball
   28  field, range, or course when passengers are being transported in
   29  a vehicle by an employee of the commercial field, range, or
   30  course to and from designated player areas.
   31         (4) A person who violates this section commits a
   32  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
   33  775.082 or s. 775.083, Florida Statutes.
   34         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.