STATE OF NEW YORK
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2957
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 265.00 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 210 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 10. "Licensing officer" means in the city of New York the police
5 commissioner of that city; in the county of Nassau the commissioner of
6 police of that county; in the county of Suffolk the sheriff of that
7 county except in the towns of Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip and
8 Smithtown, the commissioner of police of that county; in the county of
9 Albany the sheriff of the county, or a judge or justice of a court of
10 record having his or her office in such county; for the purposes of
11 section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of state police; and
12 elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court of record having
13 his office in the county of issuance.
14 § 2. Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended by
15 adding a new paragraph 7-g to read as follows:
16 7-g. In the county of Albany, possession of a pistol or revolver by a
17 person who has applied, to the licensing officer of such county, for a
18 license to possess a pistol or revolver, who has not been previously
19 denied a license, been convicted of a felony or serious offense, a fugi-
20 tive from justice, and who does not appear to be, or pose a threat to
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 be, a danger to himself, herself or to others; provided that such
2 possession shall be of a pistol or revolver owned by the office of the
3 sheriff of the county of Albany or a deputy sheriff thereof, and shall
4 be possessed at a firearms training facility operated by such office
5 while under the supervision, guidance and instruction of a deputy sher-
6 iff, and provided further that such possession occurs during the course
7 of a firearms familiarity, safety, loading and firing course conducted
8 by the office of the sheriff of the county of Albany in which such
9 person is enrolled.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed three years
12 after it shall take effect.