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Assembly Bill A6833

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to the minimum distance a firearm may be in the vicinity of school grounds, 1,000 feet

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2013-A6833 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3741
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0931, En Con L; amd §10.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S6433

2013-A6833 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increase the minimum distance a firearm may be in the vicinity of school grounds to 1,000 feet.

2013-A6833 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6833

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 19, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the penal law, in
  relation  to  the minimum distance a firearm may be in the vicinity of
  school grounds

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

  Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section
11-0931 of the environmental conservation law  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (2) discharge a firearm or long bow within [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND
feet  from  a  dwelling  house, farm building or farm structure actually
occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occupied facto-
ry or church;
  S 2. Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
vision 22 to read as follows:
  22. "SCHOOL GROUNDS" MEANS (A) IN OR ON OR WITHIN ANY BUILDING, STRUC-
TURE,  ATHLETIC  PLAYING  FIELD, PLAYGROUND OR LAND CONTAINED WITHIN THE
REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY,  PAROCHI-
AL,  INTERMEDIATE,  JUNIOR  HIGH, VOCATIONAL, OR HIGH SCHOOL, OR (B) ANY
AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND  FEET  OF  THE
REAL  PROPERTY  BOUNDARY  LINE  COMPRISING ANY SUCH SCHOOL OR ANY PARKED
AUTOMOBILE OR OTHER PARKED VEHICLE LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND  FEET  OF
THE  REAL  PROPERTY  BOUNDARY  LINE  COMPRISING ANY SUCH SCHOOL. FOR THE
PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION AN "AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC"  SHALL  MEAN
SIDEWALKS, STREETS, PARKING LOTS, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, STORES AND RESTAU-
RANTS.
  S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08291-01-3

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