STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2160

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 revocation  or  suspension
          of a license to carry or possess a firearm

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 11 of section  400.00  of  the
     2  penal  law,  as  amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) The conviction of a licensee  anywhere  of  a  felony  or  serious
     5  offense  or  a  licensee  at  any  time  becoming ineligible to obtain a
     6  license under this section shall operate as a revocation of the license.
     7  A license may be revoked or suspended as provided for in section  530.14
     8  of  the  criminal  procedure law or section eight hundred forty-two-a of
     9  the family court act; provided that a  revocation  or  suspension  of  a
    10  license  under such sections shall only occur where a temporary order of
    11  protection or an order of protection has been  issued,  or  a  temporary
    12  order  of  protection  or  an  order  of  protection  has been willfully
    13  violated. Except for a license issued pursuant to section 400.01 of this
    14  article, a license may be revoked and cancelled at any time in the  city
    15  of New York, and in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, by the licensing
    16  officer,  and  elsewhere  than  in  the city of New York by any judge or
    17  justice of a court of record;  a  license  issued  pursuant  to  section
    18  400.01  of  this article may be revoked and cancelled at any time by the
    19  licensing officer or any judge or justice of  a  court  of  record.  The
    20  official  revoking  a  license shall give written notice thereof without
    21  unnecessary delay to the executive department, division of state police,
    22  Albany, and shall also notify immediately the  duly  constituted  police
    23  authorities of the locality.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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