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Senate Bill S1223

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to adding St. Lawrence county sheriff as an additional firearm licensing officer

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2019-S1223 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4861
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7832, A10612
2017-2018: S3012, A4579
2021-2022: S2243, A4014
2023-2024: S4472, A6917
2025-2026: A3829

2019-S1223 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to adding St. Lawrence county sheriff as an additional firearms licensing officer as well as judges or justices of a court of record having an office in the county of St. Lawrence.

2019-S1223 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1223 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1223
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to adding St. Lawrence county
   sheriff as an additional firearms licensing officer
 
   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; for  the  purposes
 of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of state police; IN
 THE  COUNTY OF ST. LAWRENCE THE SHERIFF OF THAT COUNTY AS WELL AS JUDGES
 OR JUSTICES OF A COURT OF RECORD HAVING AN OFFICE IN THE COUNTY  OF  ST.
 LAWRENCE;  and  elsewhere  in the state a judge or justice of a court of
 record having his office in the county of issuance.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04210-01-9

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