Bill Text: NY A05092 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the legislative body of the county of Westchester shall fix the fee to be charged for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver and provide for the disposition of such fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - substituted by s4879 [A05092 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05092-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5092

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to fees charged for a license
          to carry or possess a pistol or revolver in the county of Westchester

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  14  of  section  400.00 of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 212 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    14.  Fees. In the city of New York and the [county] counties of Nassau
     5  and Westchester, the annual license fee shall be twenty-five dollars for
     6  gunsmiths and fifty dollars for dealers in firearms. In such  city,  the
     7  city  council and in the [county] counties of Nassau and Westchester the
     8  [Board of Supervisors] legislative body of such county shall fix the fee
     9  to be charged for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver  or
    10  to  purchase or take possession of a semiautomatic rifle and provide for
    11  the disposition of such fees. Elsewhere  in  the  state,  the  licensing
    12  officer  shall  collect  and  pay into the county treasury the following
    13  fees: for each license to carry or possess a pistol or  revolver  or  to
    14  purchase  or  take  possession  of  a semiautomatic rifle, not less than
    15  three dollars nor more than ten dollars as  may  be  determined  by  the
    16  legislative  body  of  the  county;  for  each  amendment thereto, three
    17  dollars, and five dollars in the county of Suffolk; and for each license
    18  issued to a gunsmith or dealer in firearms, ten dollars. The fee  for  a
    19  duplicate  license  shall  be  five  dollars.  The  fee for processing a
    20  license transfer between counties shall be five  dollars.  The  fee  for
    21  processing  a  license or renewal thereof for a qualified retired police
    22  officer as defined under subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of  the
    23  criminal procedure law, or a qualified retired sheriff, undersheriff, or
    24  deputy  sheriff of the city of New York as defined under subdivision two
    25  of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, or  a  qualified  retired

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04716-01-3
        A. 5092                             2

     1  bridge  and  tunnel  officer,  sergeant  or lieutenant of the triborough
     2  bridge and tunnel authority  as  defined  under  subdivision  twenty  of
     3  section  2.10  of  the  criminal  procedure  law, or a qualified retired
     4  uniformed  court  officer  in  the  unified court system, or a qualified
     5  retired court clerk in the unified court system in the first and  second
     6  judicial  departments,  as  defined in paragraphs a and b of subdivision
     7  twenty-one of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law  or  a  retired
     8  correction officer as defined in subdivision twenty-five of section 2.10
     9  of the criminal procedure law shall be waived in all counties throughout
    10  the state.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.