HOUSE BILL No. 4536


     April 21, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Rick Johnson, LaSata, Richardville, Ehardt, Sanborn, Birkholz, Julian, Middaugh, Bishop, Kowall, Allen, Pappageorge, Vander Roest, Garcia, Jellema, Mans, Patterson, Cameron Brown, Basham, Neumann, Woodward, Schermesser, Jansen, Stamas, Jelinek, Green, Sheltrown, Schauer, Mortimer, DeHart, Shulman, Scranton,
Cassis, Raczkowski and Tabor and referred to the Committee on Constitutional Law and Ethics.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 230a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 230A.  (1) A PERSON SHALL NOT POSSESS, USE, TRANSPORT,

 2    SELL, PURCHASE, CARRY, SHIP, RECEIVE, OR DISTRIBUTE A FIREARM

 3    WITHIN THIS STATE THAT HE OR SHE KNOWS OR HAS REASON TO KNOW IS

 4    NOT REGISTERED AS REQUIRED BY LAW OR KNOWS OR HAS REASON TO KNOW

 5    IS NOT PROPERLY REGISTERED AS REQUIRED BY LAW DUE TO A MATERIAL

 6    FALSE STATEMENT BY ANY PERSON.

 7         (2) SUBSECTION (1) DOES NOT APPLY TO A FIREARM THAT IS NOT

 8    REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED UNDER FEDERAL LAW OR THE LAW OF THIS

 9    STATE.






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 1         (3) A PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A FELONY

 2    PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 4 YEARS OR A FINE OF

 3    NOT MORE THAN $2,500.00, OR BOTH.

 4         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act takes effect

 5    September 30, 1999.

 6         Enacting section 2.  This amendatory act does not take

 7    effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. _____

 8    (request no. 00486'99 ***) of the 90th Legislature is enacted

 9    into law.






































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