Senate Bill S7606

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Designates the sheriff of the county of Albany, and the judges and justices of courts of record as firearms licensing officers for the county of Albany

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S7606 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10647
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง265.00 & 265.20, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S907, A2957

2015-S7606 (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-S7606 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7606 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7606

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 11, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed 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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