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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