Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1262
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 35-47-11-2.
Synopsis: Local regulation of firearms. Specifies that the law
prohibiting a county, municipality, or township from regulating the
ownership, possession, sale, transfer, or transportation of firearms or
ammunition does not apply to buildings owned or administered by the
county, municipality, or township.
Effective: July 1, 2004.
Murphy, Denbo
January 20, 2004, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Policy, Ethics and
Veterans Affairs.
Introduced
Second Regular Session 113th General Assembly (2004)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1262
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
criminal law and procedure.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 35-47-11-2; (04)IN1262.1.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 35-47-11-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2004]: Sec. 2. Notwithstanding
IC 36-1-3, a unit may not regulate in any manner the ownership,
possession, sale, transfer, or transportation of firearms (as defined in
IC 35-47-1-5) or ammunition except as follows:
(1) This chapter does not apply to
land, buildings
or other real
property owned or administered by a unit.
except highways (as
defined in IC 8-23-1-23) or public highways (as defined in
IC 8-2.1-17-14).
(2) Notwithstanding the limitation in this section, a unit may use
the unit's planning and zoning powers under IC 36-7-4 to prohibit
the sale of firearms within two hundred (200) feet of a school by
a person having a business that did not sell firearms within two
hundred (200) feet of a school before April 1, 1994.
(3) Notwithstanding the limitation in this section, a legislative
body of a unit other than a township may adopt an emergency
ordinance or a unit other than a township may take other action
allowed under section 6 of this chapter to regulate the sale of
firearms anywhere within the unit for a period of not more than
seventy-two (72) hours after the regulatory action takes effect.