Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Knife Regulation topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Rep. Joey Carr presents bill to align local knife rules with state law
Summary
Rep. Joey Carr, R., District 34, told the Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee that House Bill 1418 would add knives and knife-making components to state law to prevent inconsistent municipal restrictions and ease enforcement for tradespeople.
Rep. Joey Carr, R., District 34, told the Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee that he was presenting House Bill 1418 to add “knives and knife making components” to an existing state statute so local ordinances are not more restrictive than state regulation.
Carr said the bill is intended to make rules consistent across the state and to avoid patchwork restrictions that complicate daily work for tradespeople. “This also is gonna be friendly for skills tradesmen, the, carpenters, our electricians, plumbers, and, HVAC people that use knives on a daily basis,” Carr said. He added the measure would avoid situations where one city limits blade length to 3 inches while another uses 4 inches or 2½ inches.
Carr said he had met with the Municipal League and was told they had no opposition. A committee member asked whether any Arkansas cities were already restricting knives; Carr said, “Not yet, but there are other states in the union that are doing so. Right now, there are 15 other states that have, have this on the books.”
Carr closed by asking the committee for a motion to pass; the transcript records a motion to pass being made but does not include a completed roll-call or voice vote in the provided excerpt.
Because the committee transcript supplied does not record a final vote tally for House Bill 1418, the bill’s committee vote outcome is not specified in this record.
