Chapter 156

2008 -- H 7657 SUBSTITUTE A

Enacted 07/01/08

 

A N A C T

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS

          

     Introduced By: Representatives Palumbo, and Singleton

     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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