Bill Text: NY A01595 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the sheriff of any county outside the city of New York to issue pistol permits upon the approval of the county clerk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-17 - held for consideration in codes [A01595 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01595-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1595
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, B. MILLER, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, DiPIETRO,
          GIGLIO, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to authorizing the sheriff of
          any county to issue pistol permits
          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
     8  and Smithtown, the commissioner of police of [that] Suffolk county;  for
     9  the  purposes  of  section  400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of
    10  state police; and elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of  a  court
    11  of  record  having  his  office in the county of issuance.  A license to
    12  carry or possess a pistol or revolver under section 400.00 of this chap-
    13  ter may also be issued by the sheriff of a county outside of the city of
    14  New York if such sheriff elects to become a licensing officer.
    15    § 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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