REPORT TITLE:
Dangerous; Deadly Weapons


DESCRIPTION:
Makes it a class C felony to knowingly or intentionally sell or
transfer a switchblade knife or butterfly knife to a minor. (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO DEADLY OR DANGEROUS WEAPONS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 134-51, Session Laws of Hawaii, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(a)  Any person, not authorized by law, who carries
 
 4 concealed upon the person's self or within any vehicle used or
 
 5 occupied by the person or who is found armed with any dirk,
 
 6 dagger, [butterfly knife,] blackjack, slug shot, billy, metal
 
 7 knuckles, pistol, or other deadly or dangerous weapon shall be
 
 8 guilty of a misdemeanor and may be immediately arrested without
 
 9 warrant by any sheriff, police officer, or other officer or
 
10 person.  Any weapon, above enumerated, upon conviction of the one
 
11 carrying or possessing it under this section, shall be summarily
 
12 destroyed by the chief of police or sheriff."
 
13      SECTION 2.  Section 134-52, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
14 amended to read as follows:
 
15      "§134-52  Switchblade and butterfly knives; prohibitions;
 
16 penalty.(a)  For the purposes of this section, switchblade or
 
17 butterfly knife means any knife having a blade that opens
 
18 automatically or manually by:
 
19           (1)  Hand pressure applied to a button or other device
 
20                in the handle of the knife; or
 

 
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 1           (2)  Operation of hand or wrist action in conjunction
 
 2                with inertia, gravity, or both.
 
 3      (b)  Whoever knowingly manufactures, sells, transfers,
 
 4 possesses, or transports in the State any switchblade or
 
 5 butterfly knife [, being any knife having a blade which opens
 
 6 automatically (1) by hand pressure applied to a button or other
 
 7 device in the handle of the knife, or (2) by operation of with
 
 8 inertia, gravity, or both,] shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 9      [(b)](c)  Whoever knowingly or intentionally sells or
 
10 transfers a switchblade or butterfly knife to a minor shall be
 
11 guilty of a class C felony.
 
12      (d)  Whoever knowingly possesses or intentionally uses or
 
13 threatens to use a switchblade or butterfly knife while engaged
 
14 in the commission of a crime shall be guilty of a class C
 
15 felony."
 
16      SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that
 
17 matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were
 
18 begun, before its effective date.
 
19      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
20 New statutory material is underscored.
 
21      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.