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                                         4958
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 1, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- 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 adding Ulster county sher-
         iff as an additional firearms licensing officer
         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; for  the  purposes
    9  of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of state police; IN
   10  THE  COUNTY  OF  ULSTER  THE SHERIFF OF THAT COUNTY AS WELL AS JUDGES OR
   11  JUSTICES OF A COURT OF RECORD HAVING AN OFFICE IN THE COUNTY OF  ULSTER;
   12  and  elsewhere  in  the  state  a  judge or justice of a court of record
   13  having his office in the county of issuance.
   14    S 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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