Legislation Details

File #: Int 0069-1998-A    Version: * Name: Trigger Safety Device, Pistol Sales
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 1/22/1998
Enactment date: 5/18/1998 Law number: 1998/021
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting the sale of a pistol or revolver without a safety locking device.
Sponsors: Sheldon S. Leffler, Peter F. Vallone, Thomas K. Duane, Howard L. Lasher, John Fusco, Stanley E. Michels, Gifford Miller, Juanita E. Watkins, June M. Eisland, Guillermo Linares, Thomas White, Andrew S. Eristoff, Anthony Weiner, Madeline T. Provenzano, Martin J. Golden, Kenneth K. Fisher, Helen M. Marshall, Morton Povman, Stephen J. Fiala, Walter L. McCaffrey, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Victor L. Robles, Lawrence A. Warden, Karen Koslowitz
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Local Law 21
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
5/20/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/18/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/18/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/28/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/28/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/14/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Legislative Documents Unit Reprnt Amnd Item Laid on Desk   Action details Meeting details Not available
4/14/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Committee on Public Safety Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/14/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Committee on Public Safety Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/14/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Committee on Public Safety Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/14/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 69-A

 

By Council Members Leffler, the Speaker (Council Member Vallone), Duane, Lasher, Fusco, Michels, Miller, Watkins, Eisland, Linares, White, Eristoff, Weiner, Provenzano, Golden, Fisher, Marshall, Povman and Fiala; also Council Members McCaffrey, O'Donovan, Robles, Warden and Koslowitz.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting the sale of a pistol or revolver without a safety locking device.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section one.  Chapter three of title ten of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 10-311 to read as follows:

                     §10-311                     Sale of pistols or revolvers without safety locking device prohibited. a.  It shall be unlawful for any person or business enterprise to dispose of any pistol or revolver which does not contain a safety locking device.  For the purposes of this section, a safety locking device shall mean a design adaptation or attachable accessory that will prevent the use of the weapon by an unauthorized user, and includes, but is not limited to, a trigger lock, which prevents the pulling of the trigger without the use of a key, or a combination handle, which prevents the use of the weapon without the alignment of the combination tumblers.

                     b.                     It shall be unlawful for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver or transfer any pistol or revolver in the city of New York unless it is accompanied by the following warning, which shall appear in conspicuous and legible type in capital letters, and which shall be printed on a label affixed to the gun and on a separate sheet of paper included within the packaging enclosing the handgun:

“THE USE OF A LOCKING DEVICE OR SAFETY LOCK IS ONLY ONE ASPECT OF RESPONSIBLE FIREARM STORAGE.  FIREARMS SHOULD BE STORED UNLOADED AND LOCKED IN A LOCATION THAT IS BOTH SEPARATE FROM THEIR AMMUNITION AND INACCESSIBLE TO CHILDREN AND OTHER UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS.”

                     c.                     The police commissioner is authorized to promulgate rules setting forth the types of  safety locking devices which will comply with this section in accordance with subdivision a of this section.  The police commissioner shall provide written notice of the requirements of this section to all persons who receive an official authorization to purchase a pistol or revolver, including any rules promulgated under this subdivision.  All persons applying for a permit or applying for the renewal of a permit pursuant to chapter three of title ten of this code, shall receive from the commissioner information concerning the importance of using a safety locking device while a weapon is not in use, and a warning that firearms should be stored unloaded and locked in a location that is both separate from their ammunition and inaccessible to their children and any other unauthorized persons.

                     d.                      Any violation of this section or any rule promulgated hereunder shall be triable by a judge of the criminal court of the city of New York and punishable by imprisonment of not more than thirty days or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

                     §2.                     This local law shall take effect 180 days after its enactment.

 

 

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