Assembly Actions -
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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Assembly Bill A10647
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MCDONALD
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-A10647 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A10647 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Designates the sheriff of the county of Albany, and the judges and justices of courts of record in such county as firearms licensing officers for the county of Albany; and authorizes, in the county of Albany, the possession of a pistol or revolver while attending a firearms familiarity, safety, loading and firing course conducted by the office of the sheriff.
2015-A10647 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10647 I N A S S E M B L Y June 10, 2016 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McDonald) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to designating the sheriff of the county of Albany as a licensing officer for the purposes of firearms and authorizing the possession in the county of Albany of a pistol or revolver while attending a firearms familiarity, safety, loading and firing course conducted by the office of the sheriff of such county; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 265.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 210 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows: 10. "Licensing officer" means in the city of New York the police commissioner of that city; in the county of Nassau the commissioner of police of that county; in the county of Suffolk the sheriff of that county except in the towns of Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip and Smithtown, the commissioner of police of that county; IN THE COUNTY OF ALBANY THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY, OR A JUDGE OR JUSTICE OF A COURT OF RECORD HAVING HIS OR HER OFFICE IN SUCH COUNTY; for the purposes of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of state police; and elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court of record having his office in the county of issuance. S 2. Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended by adding a new paragraph 7-g to read as follows: 7-G. IN THE COUNTY OF ALBANY, POSSESSION OF A PISTOL OR REVOLVER BY A PERSON WHO HAS APPLIED, TO THE LICENSING OFFICER OF SUCH COUNTY, FOR A LICENSE TO POSSESS A PISTOL OR REVOLVER, WHO HAS NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLY DENIED A LICENSE, BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY OR SERIOUS OFFENSE, A FUGI- TIVE FROM JUSTICE, AND WHO DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE, OR POSE A THREAT TO BE, A DANGER TO HIMSELF, HERSELF OR TO OTHERS; PROVIDED THAT SUCH POSSESSION SHALL BE OF A PISTOL OR REVOLVER OWNED BY THE OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF ALBANY OR A DEPUTY SHERIFF THEREOF, AND SHALL EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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