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Assembly Bill A6208

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the certification of persons not suitable to possess a firearm or self-defense spray device

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2009-A6208 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§265.00 & 400.00, Pen L; add §9.65, Ment Hyg L

2009-A6208 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the certification of persons not suitable to possess a firearm or self-defense spray device.

2009-A6208 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6208

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 26, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. BARRA, WALKER -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disa-
  bilities

AN ACT to amend the penal law and the mental hygiene law, in relation to
  certifications of certain persons not suitable to possess a firearm or
  self-defense spray device

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  16  of  section  265.00 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 354 of the laws  of  1996,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  16.  "Certified  not  suitable  to possess A FIREARM OR a self-defense
spray device, a rifle or shotgun" means that the director  or  physician
in  charge  of any hospital or institution for mental illness, public or
private, has certified to the superintendent of state police [or to  any
organized  police  department of a county, city, town or village of this
state], that a person who has been judicially  adjudicated  incompetent,
or who has been confined to such institution for mental illness pursuant
to judicial authority, VOLUNTARY ADMISSION AND/OR MEDICAL CERTIFICATION,
is not suitable to possess A FIREARM; OR a self-defense spray device, as
defined  in  section  265.20  of this article[,]; or a rifle or shotgun;
PURSUANT TO SECTION 9.65 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW.
  S 2. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 9.65 to
read as follows:
S 9.65 CERTIFICATIONS OF PERSONS NOT SUITABLE TO POSSESS  A  FIREARM  OR
           SELF-DEFENSE SPRAY DEVICE.
  (A)  THE  DIRECTOR  OR  PHYSICIAN  IN  CHARGE OF ANY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC
HOSPITAL OR INSTITUTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS SHALL CERTI-
FY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE  STATE  POLICE  THAT  A  PERSON  WHO  IS
CONFINED  TO  SUCH  HOSPITAL  OR INSTITUTION PURSUANT TO JUDICIAL ORDER,
VOLUNTARY ADMISSION AND/OR MEDICAL CERTIFICATION,  IS  NOT  SUITABLE  TO

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07752-01-9
              

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