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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 10, 2016
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McDonald) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to designating the sheriff of
  the  county  of  Albany  as  a  licensing  officer for the purposes of
  firearms and authorizing the possession in the county of Albany  of  a
  pistol  or  revolver  while  attending a firearms familiarity, safety,
  loading and firing course conducted by the office of  the  sheriff  of
  such  county;  and  providing  for  the repeal of such provisions upon
  expiration thereof

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

  Section  1.    Subdivision  10  of section 265.00 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 210 of the laws  of  1999,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  10.  "Licensing  officer"  means  in  the  city of New York the police
commissioner of that city; in the county of Nassau the  commissioner  of
police  of  that  county;  in  the county of Suffolk the sheriff of that
county except in the towns of Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip and
Smithtown, the commissioner of police of that county; IN THE  COUNTY  OF
ALBANY  THE  SHERIFF  OF THE COUNTY, OR A JUDGE OR JUSTICE OF A COURT OF
RECORD HAVING HIS OR HER OFFICE IN SUCH  COUNTY;  for  the  purposes  of
section  400.01  of this chapter the superintendent of state police; and
elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court  of  record  having
his office in the county of issuance.
  S  2.   Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended by
adding a new paragraph 7-g to read as follows:
  7-G. IN THE COUNTY OF ALBANY, POSSESSION OF A PISTOL OR REVOLVER BY  A
PERSON  WHO  HAS APPLIED, TO THE LICENSING OFFICER OF SUCH COUNTY, FOR A
LICENSE TO POSSESS A PISTOL OR REVOLVER, WHO  HAS  NOT  BEEN  PREVIOUSLY
DENIED A LICENSE, BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY OR SERIOUS OFFENSE, A FUGI-
TIVE  FROM  JUSTICE,  AND WHO DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE, OR POSE A THREAT TO
BE, A DANGER TO HIMSELF,  HERSELF  OR  TO  OTHERS;  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH
POSSESSION  SHALL  BE OF A PISTOL OR REVOLVER OWNED BY THE OFFICE OF THE
SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF ALBANY OR A DEPUTY SHERIFF THEREOF,  AND  SHALL

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

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BE  POSSESSED  AT  A  FIREARMS TRAINING FACILITY OPERATED BY SUCH OFFICE
WHILE UNDER THE SUPERVISION, GUIDANCE AND INSTRUCTION OF A DEPUTY  SHER-
IFF,  AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT SUCH POSSESSION OCCURS DURING THE COURSE
OF  A  FIREARMS FAMILIARITY, SAFETY, LOADING AND FIRING COURSE CONDUCTED
BY THE OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF THE  COUNTY  OF  ALBANY  IN  WHICH  SUCH
PERSON IS ENROLLED.
  S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed  three  years
after it shall take effect.