Bill Text - HB100 (2017)

Relative to the definition and use of toy smoke devices.


Revision: June 19, 2017, 10:26 a.m.

CHAPTER 122

HB 100 - FINAL VERSION

 

26Jan2017... 0057h

2017 SESSION

17-0136

05/04

 

HOUSE BILL 100

 

AN ACT relative to the definition and use of toy smoke devices.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Welch, Rock. 13; Rep. Weyler, Rock. 13

 

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts toy smoke devices from the prohibition on the sale or use of smoke bombs.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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05/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to the definition and use of toy smoke devices.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

122:1  Toy Smoke Device; Exemption from Prohibition on the Sale or Use of Smoke Bombs.  Amend RSA 644:16-b, I to read as follows:

I.  In this section, "smoke bomb'' means any kind of device containing chemicals which when ignited gives off dense clouds of smoke; provided that this definition shall not include a toy smoke device, as defined by the American Pyrotechnics Association in APA Standard 87-1 (2001), section 3.1.1.7, that is sold or offered for sale by a person licensed to sell permissible fireworks pursuant to RSA 160-C.

122:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

 

Approved: June 16, 2017

Effective Date: June 16, 2017