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| 5 | 4 | | SENATE BILL 1105 |
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| 6 | 5 | | By Campbell |
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| 9 | 8 | | SB1105 |
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| 10 | 9 | | 002012 |
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| 11 | 10 | | - 1 - |
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| 13 | 12 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, |
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| 14 | 13 | | Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to confiscated |
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| 15 | 14 | | weapons. |
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| 17 | 16 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 18 | 17 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1317(b), is amended by |
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| 19 | 18 | | adding the following new subdivision: |
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| 20 | 19 | | ( ) Destroyed or recycled. |
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| 21 | 20 | | SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1317(g)(1), is amended by |
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| 22 | 21 | | deleting the subdivision and substituting: |
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| 23 | 22 | | (1) A weapon that may be evidence in an official proceeding shall be retained or |
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| 24 | 23 | | otherwise preserved in accordance with the rules or practices regulating the preservation |
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| 25 | 24 | | of evidence. The weapon shall be sold, destroyed, recycled, or retained for legitimate |
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| 26 | 25 | | law enforcement purposes not less than sixty (60) days nor more than one hundred |
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| 27 | 26 | | eighty (180) days after the last legal proceeding involving the weapon; provided, that the |
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| 28 | 27 | | requirements of subdivision (g)(2) have been met; and |
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| 29 | 28 | | SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. |
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