Bill Text: NY S02815 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that a person may not possess a weapon while on a mass transit service used by a transit agency, authority, or company.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-24 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02815 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S02815-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2815
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 24, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. ADAMS, ADDABBO, AVELLA, GOLDEN -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the possession of a weapon
on or in vehicles or facilities used for mass transit service by a
transit agency constituting criminal possession of a weapon in the
third degree
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 265.02 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 (4) SUCH PERSON COMMITS THE CRIME OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON
4 IN THE FOURTH DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE, TWO, OR FOUR OF
5 SECTION 265.01 OF THIS ARTICLE, WHEN SITUATED IN A SUBWAY TRAIN, SUBWAY
6 STATION, RAILROAD TRAIN, RAILROAD STATION OR ON A BUS OPERATED BY A MASS
7 TRANSIT PROVIDER, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, AND SUCH PERSON USES OR ATTEMPTS TO
8 USE SUCH WEAPON IN THE COMMISSION OF ANOTHER CRIMINAL ACT IN SUCH SUBWAY
9 TRAIN OR STATION, RAILROAD TRAIN OR STATION, OR BUS; OR
10 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05814-01-3
