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Assembly Bill A7939

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to fees charged for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver in the county of Westchester

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2021-A7939 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6659
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5092, S4879

2021-A7939 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the legislative body of the county of Westchester shall fix the fee to be charged for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver and provide for the disposition of such fees.

2021-A7939 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7939
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to fees charged for a license
   to carry or possess a pistol or revolver in the county of Westchester
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  14  of  section  400.00 of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 195 of the laws  of  2005,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   14.  Fees. In the city of New York and the [county] COUNTIES of Nassau
 AND WESTCHESTER, the annual license fee shall be twenty-five dollars for
 gunsmiths and fifty dollars for dealers in firearms. In such  city,  the
 city council and in the [county] COUNTIES of Nassau AND WESTCHESTER, the
 [Board of Supervisors] LEGISLATIVE BODY OF SUCH COUNTY shall fix the fee
 to be charged for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver and
 provide  for  the  disposition of such fees. Elsewhere in the state, the
 licensing officer shall collect and pay into  the  county  treasury  the
 following  fees: for each license to carry or possess a pistol or revol-
 ver, not less than three dollars nor more than ten  dollars  as  may  be
 determined  by  the  legislative  body of the county; for each amendment
 thereto, three dollars, and five dollars in the county of  Suffolk;  and
 for  each  license  issued  to  a  gunsmith  or  dealer in firearms, ten
 dollars. The fee for a duplicate license shall be five dollars. The  fee
 for  processing  a  license  transfer  between  counties  shall  be five
 dollars. The fee for processing a license or renewal thereof for a qual-
 ified retired police officer as defined under subdivision thirty-four of
 section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, or a qualified retired sher-
 iff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff of the city of New York as  defined
 under  subdivision two of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, or
 a qualified retired bridge and tunnel officer, sergeant or lieutenant of
 the triborough bridge and tunnel authority as defined under  subdivision
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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