Bill Text: NY A03535 | 2021-2022 | 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 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-03 - held for consideration in codes [A03535 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03535-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3535

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HAWLEY, ASHBY, BLANKENBUSH, DeSTEFANO, DiPIETRO,
          FRIEND, J. M. GIGLIO, B. MILLER, MORINELLO,  SALKA,  SMULLEN  --  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.
                                                                   LBD02047-01-1