Assembly Bill A821

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes the Ulster county sheriff to serve as an additional firearms licensing officer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A821 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1601
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A10048, S4958
2017-2018: A1267, S1032

2015-A821 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the Ulster county sheriff to serve as an additional firearms licensing officer.

2015-A821 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   821

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to adding Ulster county sher-
  iff as an additional firearms licensing officer

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section  265.00  of  the  penal  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  210  of  the  laws  of 1999, is amended to read as
follows:
  10. "Licensing officer" means in the  city  of  New  York  the  police
commissioner  of  that city; in the county of Nassau the commissioner of
police of that county; in the county of  Suffolk  the  sheriff  of  that
county except in the towns of Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip and
Smithtown,  the  commissioner of police of that county; for the purposes
of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of state police; IN
THE COUNTY OF ULSTER THE SHERIFF OF THAT COUNTY AS  WELL  AS  JUDGES  OR
JUSTICES  OF A COURT OF RECORD HAVING AN OFFICE IN THE COUNTY OF ULSTER;
and elsewhere in the state a judge or  justice  of  a  court  of  record
having his office in the county of issuance.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03049-01-5

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