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Senate Bill S66

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Changes certain provisions regarding the expiration, certification and renewal of firearm licenses

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2009-S66 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง400.00, Pen L

2009-S66 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that every license for a gunsmith or dealer, or to carry or possess a firearm shall expire not more than five years from the date of issuance regardless of the county or city which issued the license.

2009-S66 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S66 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   66

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SAMPSON -- 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  renewal  of  firearm
  licenses

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section  400.00  of  the  penal  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  447  of  the  laws  of 1997, is amended to read as
follows:
  10. License: expiration, certification and renewal.  Any  license  for
gunsmith  or  dealer  in  firearms  and[,  in the city of New York,] any
license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver[, issued  at  any  time
pursuant  to  this  section  or prior to the first day of July, nineteen
hundred sixty-three and not limited to expire on an earlier  date  fixed
in the license,] shall expire not more than [three] FIVE years after the
date  of  issuance. [In the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester,
any license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver, issued at any time
pursuant to this section or prior to the first  day  of  July,  nineteen
hundred  sixty-three  and not limited to expire on an earlier date fixed
in the license, shall expire not more than five years after the date  of
issuance;  however, in the county of Westchester, any such license shall
be certified prior to the first day of April, two thousand,  in  accord-
ance  with  a schedule to be contained in regulations promulgated by the
commissioner of the division of criminal  justice  services,  and  every
such  license  shall  be  recertified  every  five years thereafter. For
purposes of this section certification  shall  mean  that  the  licensee
shall  provide  to the licensing officer the following information only:
current name, date of birth, current address, and the make, model, cali-
ber and serial number of all firearms currently possessed. Such  certif-
ication  information shall be filed by the licensing officer in the same

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

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