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Senate Bill S3989

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the discharge of a gun or firearm

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2009-S3989 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง265.25, Pen L

2009-S3989 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the discharge of a gun or firearm.

2009-S3989 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S3989 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3989

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  WINNER -- 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 discharge of a gun  or
  firearm

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

  Section 1. Section 265.25 of the penal  law  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
S 265.25 Certain wounds to be reported.
  Every  case of a bullet wound, gunshot wound, powder burn or any other
injury arising from or caused by the discharge of a gun or firearm,  and
every  case  of a wound which is likely to or may result in death and is
actually or apparently inflicted by a knife, icepick or other  sharp  or
pointed  instrument, shall be reported at once to the police authorities
of the city, town or village where the person reporting is  located  by:
(a)  the  physician  attending or treating the case; or (b) the manager,
superintendent or other person in charge, whenever such case is  treated
in  a  hospital,  sanitarium  or  other  institution; AND (C) THE PERSON
EFFECTING THE DISCHARGE OF A GUN OR FIREARM. Failure to make such report
is a class A misdemeanor. This  subdivision  shall  not  apply  to  such
wounds,  burns  or  injuries received by a member of the armed forces of
the United States or the state of New York while engaged in  the  actual
performance of duty.
  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.
                                                           LBD11000-01-9

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