Chapter 454
2013 -- H 5286 SUBSTITUTE A AS
AMENDED
Enacted 07/16/13
A N A C T
RELATING TO
CRIMINAL OFFENSES
Introduced By: Representatives Craven, O`Neill, Lombardi, Marshall, and O'Brien
Date Introduced: February 06, 2013
It is enacted by the
General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 11-47-24 of the General Laws in Chapter
11-47 entitled "Weapons"
is hereby amended to read as follows:
11-47-24.
Alteration of marks of identification on firearms. --
(a) No person shall
change, alter, remove, or obliterate the name of the maker,
model, manufacturer's number, or
other mark of identification on any firearm. Possession of
any firearm upon which any of these
marks shall have been changed, altered, removed, or obliterated
shall be prima facie evidence that
the possessor has changed, altered, removed, or
obliterated it. Violation of the provisions of this
section may be punished by imprisonment for not more than
five (5) years. or
if there is no name
of the maker, model, or manufacturer's number then any
other mark of identification on any
firearm.
(b) No person shall,
absent recertification paperwork, knowingly receive, transport, or
possess any firearm which has had the name of the maker or
manufacturer's serial number
removed, altered, or obliterated, or if there is no name of
the maker, model, or manufacturer's
number then any other mark of identification on any firearm.
(c) Possession of any
firearm, absent recertification paperwork, upon which the name of
the maker, model, manufacturer's number, or if there is
no name of the maker, model, or
manufacturer's number then any other mark of identification on any
firearm has been changed,
altered, removed, or obliterated shall be prima facie
evidence that the possessor has changed,
altered, removed, or obliterated it.
(d) A person in
possession of a firearm, with proof of ownership and/or transfer from a
FFL dealer, may apply for recertification of that
firearm from a
firearms business owner who also is a FFL dealer or a local
police chief and/or police department
official if the name of the maker, model, manufacturer's
number, or if there is no name of the
maker, model, or manufacturer's number then any other mark
of identification on the firearm has
been only partially damaged.
(e) The
a local police chief and/or police department official
shall, within sixty (60) days of the
application if he or she is reasonably able to verify the firearm
ownership and identifying marks
recertify the firearm or return the firearm to the person who
presented it, certify by written
notarized documentation that the firearm's name of the maker,
model, manufacturer's number, or
if there is no name of the maker, model, or
manufacturer's number then any other mark of
identification on the firearm has been partially damaged and is
still identifiable and traceable to
the record owner.
(f) The sale or
transfer of a recertified firearm and/or the submission of a report by the
record owner that the firearm was stolen immediately voids
all recertification documentation.
(g) Violation of the
provisions of this section may be punished by imprisonment for not
more than five (5) years.
(h) This section
shall not apply to the lawful exchange of component parts of any
firearms, nor to any antique and collectible weapons legally possessed
by collectors and dealers
of firearms as provided in section 11-47-25.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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