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624.731.1(1)
Statute ID:
12812
Statute Function ID:
28116
Tear gas and tear gas compounds; electronic incapacitation devices-definition-authorized tear gas
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Statute Number:
624.731.1(1)
Enactment Date:
Jan 1, 1859
Effective Date:
Oct 22, 2008
Expiration Date:
Repealed?:
No
Summary Text:
Tear gas and tear gas compounds; electronic incapacitation devices-definition-authorized tear gas
Statute ID:
12812
Created:
Mar 16, 2009 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us
Updated:
Mar 16, 2009 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us
Last Update Action:
Added
Legal Analyst Comment:
New Code for Revisor Editorial Change. Change from (a) to (1)
Summary Text:
Tear gas and tear gas compounds; electronic incapacitation devices-definition-authorized tear gas
Link to MN Statute Text:
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/624/731.html
Legislative Session:
2008 - Regular
Session Law Text?:
No
Statute text last updated on:
Mar 16, 2009
For the purposes of this section: (1) "authorized tear gas compound" means a lachrymator or any substance composed of a mixture of a lachrymator including chloroacetophenone, alpha-chloroacetophenone; phenylchloromethylketone, orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile or oleoresin capsicum, commonly known as tear gas; and (2) "electronic incapacitation device" means a portable device which is designed or intended by the manufacturer to be used, offensively or defensively, to temporarily immobilize or incapacitate persons by means of electric pulse or current, including devices operating by means of carbon dioxide propellant. "Electronic incapacitation device" does not include cattle prods, electric fences, or other electric devices when used in agricultural, animal husbandry, or food production activities.
