5202-S AMH JUDI PERR 066

SSB 5202 - H COMM AMD

By By Committee on Judiciary

ADOPTED 4/4/2007

   On page 2, beginning on line 1, strike all of subsection (2) and insert the following:

   "(2) Subsection (1)(a) of this section does not apply to:

   (a) The possession of a spring blade knife by a law enforcement officer while the officer:

   (i) Is on official duty: or

   (ii) Is transporting the knife to or from the place where the knife is stored when the officer is not on official duty; or

   (b) The storage of a spring blade knife by a law enforcement officer."

EFFECT: Removes possible ambiguity in the language that might result in excluding police officers from all of the weapons prohibitions, rather than just those relating to spring blade knives.