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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7223
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4901
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E STORAGE OF A PISTOL OR REVOLVER
IN A MOTOR VEHICLE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) (a) (1) No person shall 1
store or keep any pistol or revolver in any motor vehicle that is 2
unattended unless such pistol or revolver is in a securely locked safe. 3
(2) For purposes of this subsection, (A) a motor vehicle is 4
unattended if no person who is at least twenty-one years of age and 5
who is the owner or operator or a passenger of such motor vehicle is 6
inside the motor vehicle or is within close enough proximity to the 7
motor vehicle to prevent unauthorized access to the motor vehicle, and 8
(B) the terms "pistol" and "revolver" mean pistol and revolver, as 9
defined in section 29-27 of the general statutes, and the term "motor 10
vehicle" means motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1 of the general 11
statutes. 12
(b) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (a) of this 13
section shall be guilty of a class D felony. 14 Raised Bill No. 7223
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require safe storage of a pistol or revolver in a motor vehicle.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]