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Assembly Bill A3796

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing Nassau County auxiliary police to have police batons

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2019-A3796 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.20, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10368
2021-2022: A5025
2023-2024: A3951
2025-2026: A4231

2019-A3796 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing members of the Nassau County auxiliary police force to possess a police baton when authorized by the police commissioner of such county.

2019-A3796 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3796
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH, D'URSO, RA, MONTESANO, B. MILLER,
   LAWRENCE, M. L. MILLER, MORINELLO -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.
   CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to allowing members of the
   Nassau County auxiliary police force to possess a  police  baton  when
   authorized by the police commissioner of such county
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision b of  section  265.20  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter 75 of the laws of 1983 and as relettered by chapter
 376 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
   b. Section 265.01 OF THIS ARTICLE shall not  apply  to  possession  of
 that  type  of billy commonly known as a "police baton" which is twenty-
 four to twenty-six inches in length and no more than one and one-quarter
 inches in thickness by members of an auxiliary police force  of  a  city
 with  a  population in excess of one million persons [or], the county of
 Suffolk OR THE COUNTY OF NASSAU when duly authorized  by  regulation  or
 order  issued  by  the  police  commissioner of such city or such county
 respectively. Such regulations shall require training in the use of  the
 police baton including but not limited to the defensive use of the baton
 and  instruction  in  the legal use of deadly physical force pursuant to
 article thirty-five of this chapter. Notwithstanding the  provisions  of
 this  section  or  any  other provision of law, possession of such baton
 shall not be authorized when used intentionally to strike another person
 except in those situations when the use  of  deadly  physical  force  is
 authorized by such article thirty-five.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01722-01-9

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