Senate Bill S8291

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Allows constables on Fishers Island to carry firearms

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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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2009-S8291 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8188
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2.10, CP L

2009-S8291 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows constables on Fishers Island to carry firearms.

2009-S8291 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S8291 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8291

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 21, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  allowing
  constables on Fishers Island to carry firearms

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 18 of section 2.10 of  the  criminal  procedure
law,  as  amended by chapter 224 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read
as follows:
  18. Bay constable of the city of  Rye,  the  villages  of  Mamaroneck,
South  Nyack and bay constables of the towns of East Hampton, Hempstead,
Oyster Bay, Riverhead, Southampton,  Southold,  Islip,  Shelter  Island,
Brookhaven,   Babylon,   Smithtown,   Huntington  and  North  Hempstead;
provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be  deemed  to
authorize  the  bay  constables in the city of Rye, the village of South
Nyack or the towns  of  Brookhaven,  Babylon,  Southold,  East  Hampton,
Riverhead,  Islip,  other  than a bay constable of the town of Islip who
prior to April third, nineteen hundred ninety-eight served as harbormas-
ter for such town and whose position was reclassified as  bay  constable
for  such  town prior to such date, Smithtown, Huntington [and], Shelter
Island, AND FISHERS ISLAND to carry, possess, repair  or  dispose  of  a
firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been issued pursuant
to section 400.00 of the penal law.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09501-01-9

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