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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6917
SPONSOR: Gray TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to adding St. Lawrence county
sheriff as an additional firearms licensing officer
PURPOSE:
To authorize the St. Lawrence County Sheriff to act as an additional
firearms licensing officer
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends § 265.00(10) of the Penal Law, to allow the Sheriff in
St. Lawrence County to act as an additional firearms licensing officer..
Section 2 is the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Allowing the St. Lawrence County Sheriff to act as an additional
firearms licensing officer should provide for an increase in the ability
of St. Lawrence County to process licensing applications. This legis-
lation is introduced at the request of the St. Lawrence Country Board of
Legislators.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2019-2020: S.1223/A.4861 Blankenbush
2021-2022: S2243 referred to Codes; A4014 referred to Codes
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the state
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6917
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GRAY -- read once and referred 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 265.00 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 210 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 10. "Licensing officer" means in the city of New York the police
5 commissioner of that city; in the county of Nassau the commissioner of
6 police of that county; in the county of Suffolk the sheriff of that
7 county except in the towns of Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip and
8 Smithtown, the commissioner of police of that county; for the purposes
9 of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of state police; in
10 the county of St. Lawrence the sheriff of that county as well as judges
11 or justices of a court of record having an office in the county of St.
12 Lawrence; and elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court of
13 record having his office in the county of issuance.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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