Bill Text: NY A04280 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the issuance and administration of certificates of restoration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A04280 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04280-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4280
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PERRY --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, the executive law, the tax law,  the
          vehicle and traffic law, the alcoholic beverage control law, the agri-
          culture  and markets law, the public health law, the general municipal
          law, the town law, the education law, the general  business  law,  the
          insurance  law,  the banking law, the penal law, the civil rights law,
          the real property law and the administrative code of the city  of  New
          York,  in relation to the issuance of certificates of restoration; and
          to repeal certain provisions of the correction law relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  700 of the correction law, as amended by chapter
     2  342 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 700. Definitions [and rules of construction].  [1.] As used in  this
     4  article the following terms have the following meanings:
     5    [(a)]  1.  "Eligible  offender"  shall  mean  a  person  who  has been
     6  convicted of a crime or of an offense[, but who has not  been  convicted
     7  more than once of a felony].
     8    [(b)]  2. "Felony" means a conviction of a felony in this state, or of
     9  an offense in any other jurisdiction for which a sentence to a  term  of
    10  imprisonment  in excess of one year, or a sentence of death, was author-
    11  ized.
    12    [(c)] 3. "Revocable sentence" means a suspended sentence or a sentence
    13  upon which execution was suspended pursuant to the penal law  in  effect
    14  prior to September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven; or a sentence of
    15  probation  or of conditional discharge imposed pursuant to the penal law
    16  in effect after September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.
    17    [2.  For  the  purposes  of  this  article  the  following  rules   of
    18  construction shall apply:

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