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A07177 Summary:

BILL NO	A07177
SAME AS	SAME AS S05650
SPONSOR	Lentol
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd S265.15, Pen L
Provides an affirmative defense for criminal possession of a weapon where the weapon is a gravity knife and the person did not intend to use it unlawfully.

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A07177 Actions:

BILL NO	A07177
05/06/2013	referred to codes
01/08/2014	referred to codes

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A07177 Floor Votes:

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A07177 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7177
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       May 6, 2013
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LENTOL -- (at request of the Office of Court
          Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to an affirmative defense  to
          criminal possession of a gravity knife
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 265.15 of the penal  law  is
     2  amended and a new subdivision 7 is added to read as follows:
     3    Presumptions  of  possession, unlawful intent and defacement; affirma-
     4  tive defense.
     5    7.  It is an affirmative defense to criminal possession of a weapon as
     6  provided in subdivision one of section 265.01 of this article or  subdi-
     7  vision  one of section 265.02 of this article where the weapon possessed
     8  is a gravity knife and where the person did not intend to use it  unlaw-
     9  fully.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law and shall apply  to  all  pending  trials  where  jury
    12  deliberations have not yet commenced.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09839-01-3

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