The New York State Senate

 
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                                   5092
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 2, 2023
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 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 212 of the laws  of  2022,  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  or
 to  purchase or take possession of a semiautomatic rifle 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  revolver  or  to
 purchase  or  take  possession  of  a semiautomatic rifle, 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 qualified retired police
 officer as defined under subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of  the
 criminal procedure law, or a qualified retired sheriff, 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04716-01-3

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 bridge  and  tunnel  officer,  sergeant  or lieutenant of the triborough
 bridge and tunnel authority  as  defined  under  subdivision  twenty  of
 section  2.10  of  the  criminal  procedure  law, or a qualified retired
 uniformed  court  officer  in  the  unified court system, or a qualified
 retired court clerk in the unified court system in the first and  second
 judicial  departments,  as  defined in paragraphs a and b of subdivision
 twenty-one of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law  or  a  retired
 correction officer as defined in subdivision twenty-five of section 2.10
 of the criminal procedure law shall be waived in all counties throughout
 the state.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.