Chapter
094
2008 -- S 2710 SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 06/26/08
A N A C T
RELATING TO CRIMINAL
OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
Introduced By: Senator C Levesque
Date Introduced: February 26, 2008
It is
enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Section 11-47-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-47 entitled
"Weapons"
is
hereby amended to read as follows:
11-47-9.
Persons exempt from restrictions. -- The provisions of section 11-47-8
shall
not
apply to sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, the superintendent and members of the state
police,
members
of the Rhode Island airport police department, members of the Rhode Island
state
marshals,
Rhode Island state fire marshal, chief deputy state fire marshals, deputy state
fire
marshals
assigned to the bomb squad, and those assigned to the investigation unit,
correctional
officers,
all within the department of corrections, members of the city or town police
force,
capitol
police investigators of the department of attorney general appointed pursuant
to section
42-9-8.1,
the witness protection coordinator for the witness protection review board as
set forth in
chapter
30 of title 12 and subject to the minimum qualifications of section 42-9-8.1,
the director,
assistant
director, and other inspectors and agents at the Rhode Island state fugitive
task force
appointed
pursuant to section 12-6-7.2, railroad police while traveling to and from
official
assignments
or while on assignments, conservation officers, or other duly appointed law
enforcement
officers, nor to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps of the
United
States, the National Guard, or organized reserves, when on duty, nor to members
of
organizations
by law authorized to purchase or receive firearms from the United States or
this
state,
provided these members are at or going to or from their places of assembly or
target
practice,
nor to officers or employees of the United States authorized by law to carry a
concealed
firearm,
nor to any civilian guard or criminal investigator carrying sidearms or a
concealed
firearm
in the performance of his or her official duties under the authority of the
commanding
officer
of the military establishment in the state of Rhode Island where he or she is
employed by
the
United States, nor to any civilian guard carrying sidearms or a concealed
firearm in the
performance
of his or her official duties under the authority of the adjutant general where
he or
she is
employed guarding a national guard facility, provided, that the commanding officer
of the
military
establishment shall have on file with the attorney general of this state a list
of the names
and
addresses of all civilian guards and criminal investigators so authorized, nor
to duly
authorized
military organizations when on duty, nor to members when at or going to or from
their
customary
places of assembly, nor to any individual employed in the capacity of warden,
associate
warden, major, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, correctional officer or
investigator at any
project
owned or operated by a municipal detention facility corporation, including the
Donald W.
Wyatt
Detention Facility, nor to the regular and/or ordinary transportation of
pistols or revolvers
as
merchandise, nor to any person while carrying transporting a
pistol, or revolvers, unloaded
and
securely wrapped from the place of purchase to his or her home or place of
business, or in
moving
goods from one place of abode or business to another from the place of purchase to their
residence,
or place of business, from their residence to their place of business or from
their place
of
business to their residence, or to a Federal Firearms licensee for the purpose
of sale, to or from
a
bona fide gunsmith, or firearms repair facility, to any police station or other
location designated
as a
site of a bona fide "gun buy-back" program but only if said pistol or
revolver is unloaded and
any
ammunition for said pistol or revolver is not readily or directly accessible
from the passenger
compartment
of such vehicle while transporting same and further provided that in the case
of a
vehicle
without a compartment separate from the passenger compartment the firearm or
the
ammunition
shall be stored in a locked container.
Persons exempted by the provisions of this
section from
the provisions of section 11-47-8 shall have the right to carry concealed
firearms
everywhere
within this state; provided, that this shall not be construed as giving the
right to carry
concealed
firearms to a person transporting firearms as merchandise or as household or
business
goods.
SECTION
2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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