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                                   9614
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2018
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 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to extending the deadline for
   recertification of licenses to carry or possess a pistol or revolver
 
   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 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   10.  License:  expiration,  certification and renewal. (a) 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 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
 manner as an amendment. Elsewhere than in the city of New York  and  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 previously revoked or cancelled, shall be in  force  and  effect
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 until  revoked  as herein provided. Any license not previously cancelled
 or revoked shall remain in full force and effect for thirty days  beyond
 the  stated  expiration date on such license. Any application to renew a
 license that has not previously expired, been revoked or cancelled shall
 thereby extend the term of the license until disposition of the applica-
 tion  by the licensing officer. In the case of a license for gunsmith or
 dealer in firearms, in counties having a population  of  less  than  two
 hundred  thousand  inhabitants,  photographs  and  fingerprints shall be
 submitted on original applications and upon renewal thereafter  only  at
 six  year  intervals.  Upon  satisfactory  proof  that a currently valid
 original license has been despoiled, lost or otherwise removed from  the
 possession of the licensee and upon application containing an additional
 photograph  of  the licensee, the licensing officer shall issue a dupli-
 cate license.
   (b) All licensees shall be recertified to the division of state police
 every five years thereafter. Any license  issued  before  the  effective
 date  of  the  chapter  of the laws of two thousand thirteen which added
 this paragraph shall be recertified by the licensee on or before  [Janu-
 ary thirty-first, two thousand eighteen] JULY THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
 NINETEEN,  and  not  less  than  one  year prior to such date, the state
 police shall send a notice to all license holders who have not  recerti-
 fied  by  such time. Such recertification shall be in a form as approved
 by the superintendent of state police, which shall request  the  license
 holder's  name, date of birth, gender, race, residential address, social
 security number,  firearms  possessed  by  such  license  holder,  email
 address at the option of the license holder and an affirmation that such
 license  holder is not prohibited from possessing firearms. The form may
 be in an electronic form if so designated by the superintendent of state
 police. Failure to recertify shall act as a revocation of such  license.
 If the New York state police discover as a result of the recertification
 process  that  a licensee failed to provide a change of address, the New
 York state police shall not require the licensing officer to revoke such
 license.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after January 31, 2018.