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Assembly Bill A2887

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the purchase or sale of protective body vests except to law enforcement or military personnel

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2009-A2887 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง270.40, Pen L

2009-A2887 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the purchase or sale of protective body vests except to law enforcement or military personnel; provides for registering of such sales by vendors; establishes unlawful purchase or sale of a body vest as a class A misdemeanor.

2009-A2887 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2887

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. KOON, PEOPLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  COOK, DINOWITZ, GALEF, HOOPER, JOHN, LAVINE,  MAYERSOHN,  ROBINSON  --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to the purchase or sale of
  protective body vests

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

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.40 to
read as follows:
S 270.40 UNLAWFUL PURCHASING OR SELLING OF A BODY VEST.
  1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL PURCHASING OR SELLING OF A BODY VEST
WHEN HE OR SHE PURCHASES OR SELLS, OR OFFERS TO PURCHASE OR SELL, A BODY
VEST AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 270.20 OF THIS ARTICLE.
  2. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO POLICE  OFFICERS,
AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE LAW, PEACE OFFICERS, AS LISTED IN SECTION 2.10 OF THE CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE LAW, AND ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL OF THE UNITED  STATES  OR  ANY
ONE OF SUCH STATES. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, A PERSON WHO REGULARLY SELLS BODY
VESTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OR MILITARY PERSONNEL SHALL ALSO BE EXEMPT FROM
THE  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION IF THEY KEEP A REGIS-
TER OF THEIR SALES IDENTIFYING TO WHOM THE VEST IS BEING SOLD.
  UNLAWFUL PURCHASING OR SELLING OF A BODY VEST IS A CLASS  A  MISDEMEA-
NOR.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01615-01-9

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