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                                  2788

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law,  in  relation  to the possession of
  disguised knives

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 26 to read as follows:
  26. "DISGUISED KNIFE" MEANS ANY KNIFE WHICH IS DESIGNED TO  APPEAR  AS
AN  OBJECT OTHER THAN A KNIFE, SUCH AS A COMB, WRITING INSTRUMENT, CIGA-
RETTE LIGHTER OR OTHER OBJECT COMMONLY CARRIED ON THE PERSON, AND  WHICH
INCLUDES A BLADE CONCEALED WITHIN SUCH OBJECT.
  S  2.  Subdivisions  6, 7 and 8 of section 265.01 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, are amended and a new subdivi-
sion 9 is added to read as follows:
  (6) He OR SHE is a person who  has  been  certified  not  suitable  to
possess a rifle or shotgun, as defined in subdivision sixteen of section
265.00,  and  refuses  to yield possession of such rifle or shotgun upon
the demand of a police officer. Whenever a person is certified not suit-
able to possess a rifle or shotgun, a member of the police department to
which such certification is made, or of the state police,  shall  forth-
with  seize  any  rifle  or shotgun possessed by such person. A rifle or
shotgun seized as herein provided shall not be destroyed, but  shall  be
delivered  to  the  headquarters  of  such  police  department, or state
police, and there retained until  the  aforesaid  certificate  has  been
rescinded  by  the director or physician in charge, or other disposition
of such rifle or shotgun has been ordered or authorized by  a  court  of
competent jurisdiction[.]; OR
  (7)  He  OR  SHE  knowingly possesses a bullet containing an explosive
substance designed to detonate upon impact[.]; OR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (8) He OR SHE possesses any armor piercing ammunition with  intent  to
use the same unlawfully against another[.]; OR
  (9) HE OR SHE POSSESSES ANY DISGUISED KNIFE.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.