Senate Bill S2175

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Includes sharing, making available, selling, exchanging, giving or disposing of a community gun as an element of certain criminal acts

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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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2013-S2175 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§115.00, 115.01, 115.05, 115.08, 115.15, 265.00, 265.11 & 265.13, add §115.20, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S7839

2013-S2175 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes sharing, making available, selling, exchanging, giving or disposing of a community gun as an element of certain criminal acts.

2013-S2175 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S2175 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2175

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 14, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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  community  guns  and  the
  criminal sale of a firearm in the first and third degrees

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

  Section 1. Section 115.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  422
of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
S 115.00 Criminal facilitation in the fourth degree.
  A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal  facilitation in the fourth degree
when[,]:
  1. believing it probable that he OR SHE is rendering aid:
  [1.] A. to a person who intends to commit a crime, he OR  SHE  engages
in  conduct which provides such person with means or opportunity for the
commission thereof and which in fact aids such person to commit a  felo-
ny; or
  [2.]  B.  to a person under sixteen years of age who intends to engage
in conduct which would constitute a crime, he OR SHE, being  over  eigh-
teen  years  of  age, engages in conduct which provides such person with
means or opportunity for the commission thereof and which in  fact  aids
such person to commit a crime; OR
  2.  HE  OR  SHE BEING NOT AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO NEW YORK STATE LAW TO
POSSESS A FIREARM SHARES, MAKES AVAILABLE, SELLS,  EXCHANGES,  GIVES  OR
DISPOSES OF A COMMUNITY GUN, OR ASSISTS ANY PERSON IN ANY SUCH ACTIVITY,
AND SUCH COMMUNITY GUN IN FACT AIDS A PERSON TO COMMIT A FELONY, INCLUD-
ING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  A  FELONY SET FORTH IN ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED
SIXTY-FIVE OF THIS PART; OR
  3. HE OR SHE, BEING OVER EIGHTEEN YEARS  OF  AGE  AND  NOT  AUTHORIZED
PURSUANT  TO  NEW  YORK  STATE  LAW  TO POSSESS A FIREARM, SHARES, MAKES
AVAILABLE, SELLS, EXCHANGES, GIVES OR DISPOSES OF A  COMMUNITY  GUN,  OR
ASSISTS  ANY PERSON IN ANY SUCH ACTIVITY, AND SUCH COMMUNITY GUN IN FACT

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06323-01-3
              

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