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SENATE BILL NO. 660 Offered January 23, 2004 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-287.01, relating to weapons in airports. ---------- Patron-- Stolle ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-287.01 as follows:

§ 18.2-287.01. Carrying weapon in air carrier airport terminal.

It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or transport into any air carrier airport terminal in the Commonwealth any (i) gun or other weapon designed or intended to propel a missle or projectile of any kind, (ii) frame, receiver, muffler, silencer, missle, projectile or ammunition designed for use with a dangerous weapon and (iii) any other dangerous weapon, including explosives, tasers, stun weapons and those weapons specified in subsection A of §18.2-308. Any such weapon shall be subject to seizure by a law-enforcement officer. A violation of this section is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any weapon possessed or transported in violation of this section shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth and disposed of as provided in § subsection A of 18.2-308.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any police officer, sheriff, law-enforcement agent or official, game warden, or conservator of the peace while in the conduct of such person's official duties, nor shall the provisions of this section apply to any ticketed passenger who, to the extent otherwise permitted by law, transports a lawful firearm into or out of an air carrier airport terminal for the sole purposes, respectively, of checking such firearm with his luggage or retrieving such firearm from the baggage claim area.