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                                   4881
 
                        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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