Provides requirement to report lost or stolen firearms within 72 hours to local police authorities; intentional failure to report shall be a class A misdemeanor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5782
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, ROBINSON, HOOPER, TITONE, JAFFEE,
WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, COOK, GOTTFRIED,
MARKEY, SCARBOROUGH, SCHIMEL, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to failure to report a lost
or stolen firearm
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.27 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 265.27 Lost or stolen firearm to be reported.
4 An owner of one or more firearms shall report each incidence of a lost
5 or stolen firearm to the police authorities of the city, town or village
6 where such person reporting is located within seventy-two hours of such
7 loss or theft, or discovery of such loss or theft.
8 An intentional failure to make such report is a class A misdemeanor.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 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.
LBD04532-01-5
