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537.99 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 102D <br />Further, it shall be unlawful to display laser pointers in any manner or to post a sign <br />advertising the availability of laser pointers unless notice has been posted in a conspicuous location <br />indicating that the sale or giving of laser pointers to persons eighteen years of age or younger is <br />a misdemeanor. <br />(f) When a person is found to possess a laser pointer while in a public place or on <br />school premises in violation of subsection (d) hereof, it is an affirmative defense that: <br />(1) Such person was traveling to or from school premises, where the laser <br />pointer would have -been or was used for a valid institutional, school- <br />related, or employment purpose under the supervision of a school staff <br />person, other authorized instructor, employer, or employer's agent and such <br />person had not turned on the laser pointer or displayed it in a menacing or <br />threatening manner; or <br />(2) Such person was traveling to or from his or her place of employment where <br />the laser pointer would have been or was used during such person's hours <br />of employment, for a valid employment purpose, under the supervision of <br />the employer or employer's agent, and such person had not turned on the <br />laser pointer or displayed in it a menacing or threatening manner. <br />(g) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree, except <br />that if the person the laser beam was focused, shined, or pointed on was at the time a uniformed <br />police officer, uniformed security guard, uniformed school safety officer, uniformed traffic <br />enforcement agent, uniformed emergency medical service worker, or uniformed ambulance <br />worker, or other uniformed Village, state or federal peace officer, investigator, or emergency <br />service worker, or the marked service vehicle of any such individual, the violator is guilty of a <br />misdemeanor of the first degree. <br />(Ord. 99-20. Passed 8-16-99.) <br />537.99 PENALTY. <br />(EDITOR'S NOTE: <br />classification.) <br />See Section 501.99 for penalties applicable to any misdemeanor <br />2000 Replacement <br />