S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 5, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession of a
weapon in the third degree
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 265.02 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 4 to read as follows:
(4) SUCH PERSON COMMITS THE CRIME OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON
IN THE FOURTH DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE, TWO OR FOUR OF
SECTION 265.01 OF THIS ARTICLE, WHEN SITUATED IN A SUBWAY STATION, RAIL-
ROAD STATION OR TERMINAL, OR BUS STATION OR TERMINAL, OR ON A SUBWAY
TRAIN, RAILROAD TRAIN, OR BUS OPERATED BY A MASS TRANSIT PROVIDER,
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, AND SUCH PERSON USES OR ATTEMPTS TO USE SUCH WEAPON
IN THE COMMISSION OF ANOTHER CRIMINAL ACT IN SUCH SUBWAY STATION, RAIL-
ROAD STATION OR TERMINAL, OR BUS STATION OR TERMINAL, OR ON SUCH SUBWAY
TRAIN, RAILROAD TRAIN OR BUS; OR
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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