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                                   6519
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 11, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the  denial  of
   an  application for a license to install, service or maintain security
   or fire alarm systems submitted by persons convicted of certain  felo-
   nies and increasing the period of a license suspension
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision  2  of  section  69-o  of  the
 general  business law, as amended by chapter 575 of the laws of 1993, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (c) A conviction for which a certificate of relief  from  disabilities
 or  a  certificate  of  good  conduct  has  been  issued pursuant to the
 correction law.
   The division of criminal justice services shall retain the fingerprint
 cards and return the report of such convictions  or  pending  cases,  if
 any,  to  the secretary of state who shall retain them in a confidential
 file for no more than one year, after which time such  report  shall  be
 destroyed.
   The  secretary  of  state shall deny the application of any individual
 convicted IN THIS STATE OR ANY OTHER STATE OR  TERRITORY  of  a  felony,
 WHICH  IN  THE DISCRETION OF SUCH SECRETARY, BEARS A RELATIONSHIP TO THE
 PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF AN ALARM  INSTALLER;  OR  involving  fraud,
 bribery,  perjury  or  theft  pursuant to article one hundred forty, one
 hundred fifty-five, one  hundred  sixty,  one  hundred  sixty-five,  one
 hundred  seventy, one hundred seventy-five, one hundred seventy-six, one
 hundred eighty, one hundred eighty-five, one hundred ninety, one hundred
 ninety-five, two hundred or two hundred ten of the penal law; or  has  a
 criminal  action  which has been pending for such a felony for under one
 year without a final disposition unless adjourned  in  contemplation  of
 dismissal;  provided,  however,  that  for the purposes of this article,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 none of the  following  shall  be  considered  criminal  convictions  or
 reported as such:
   (i)  A  conviction  which  has been vacated and replaced by a youthful
 offender finding pursuant to article seven hundred twenty of the  crimi-
 nal  procedure  law,  or  the  applicable provisions of law of any other
 jurisdiction; or
   (ii) A conviction the records of which have been  expunged  or  sealed
 pursuant  to  the  applicable provisions of the laws of this state or of
 any other jurisdiction; or
   (iii) A conviction for which a certificate of relief from disabilities
 or a certificate of  good  conduct  has  been  issued  pursuant  to  the
 correction law.
   §  2.  Subdivision  2  of section 69-s of the general business law, as
 amended by chapter 575 of the laws  of  1993,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  Whenever  the  license  to  engage  in the business of installing,
 servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems is revoked, such
 license shall not be reinstated or reissued until after  the  expiration
 of a period of AT LEAST five years from the date of such revocation.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment  and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such date.