STATE OF NEW YORK
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7343
IN SENATE
January 8, 2018
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Introduced by Sens. SEWARD, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to extending the period of
time for an initial firearm license recertification
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 10 of section 400.00 of the
2 penal law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 (b) All licensees shall be recertified to the division of state police
5 every five years thereafter. Any license issued before the effective
6 date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand thirteen which added
7 this paragraph shall be recertified by the licensee on or before [Janu-
8 ary] March thirty-first, two thousand eighteen, and not less than one
9 year prior to such date, the state police shall send a notice to all
10 license holders who have not recertified by such time. Such recertif-
11 ication shall be in a form as approved by the superintendent of state
12 police, which shall request the license holder's name, date of birth,
13 gender, race, residential address, social security number, firearms
14 possessed by such license holder, email address at the option of the
15 license holder and an affirmation that such license holder is not
16 prohibited from possessing firearms. The form may be in an electronic
17 form if so designated by the superintendent of state police. Failure to
18 recertify shall act as a revocation of such license. If the New York
19 state police discover as a result of the recertification process that a
20 licensee failed to provide a change of address, the New York state
21 police shall not require the licensing officer to revoke such license.
22 § 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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