Exempts off-duty police officers and peace officers and retired police officers and peace officers from provisions pertaining to large capacity ammunition feeding devices.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4039--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 5, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. ADAMS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to exemptions pertaining to
large capacity ammunition feeding devices and off-duty and retired
police officers and peace officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph 11-a to read as follows:
3 11-a. Possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device that
4 contains more than seven rounds of ammunition or is obtained after the
5 effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand thirteen which
6 added this paragraph and has a capacity of, or that can be readily
7 restored or converted to accept, more than seven rounds of ammunition,
8 by an off-duty police officer or peace officer, or a retired police
9 officer or peace officer, as "police officer" is defined in subdivision
10 thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law and "peace
11 officer" is defined in section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
13 manner as paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 23 of section 265.00 of
14 the penal law, as amended by section 38 of chapter 1 of the laws of
15 2013, take effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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