STATE OF NEW YORK
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907
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 5, 2017
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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:
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.