STATE OF NEW YORK
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73
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. VOLKER -- 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 waiving license fees for
possessing of firearms for retired federal law enforcement officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 195 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 14. Fees. In the city of New York and the county of Nassau, the annual
5 license fee shall be twenty-five dollars for gunsmiths and fifty dollars
6 for dealers in firearms. In such city, the city council and in the coun-
7 ty of Nassau the Board of Supervisors shall fix the fee to be charged
8 for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver and provide for
9 the disposition of such fees. Elsewhere in the state, the licensing
10 officer shall collect and pay into the county treasury the following
11 fees: for each license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver, not
12 less than three dollars nor more than ten dollars as may be determined
13 by the legislative body of the county; for each amendment thereto, three
14 dollars, and five dollars in the county of Suffolk; and for each license
15 issued to a gunsmith or dealer in firearms, ten dollars. The fee for a
16 duplicate license shall be five dollars. The fee for processing a
17 license transfer between counties shall be five dollars. The fee for
18 processing a license or renewal thereof for a qualified retired police
19 officer as defined under subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the
20 criminal procedure law, or a qualified retired sheriff, undersheriff, or
21 deputy sheriff of the city of New York as defined under subdivision two
22 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, or a qualified retired
23 bridge and tunnel officer, sergeant or lieutenant of the triborough
24 bridge and tunnel authority as defined under subdivision twenty of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, or a qualified retired
2 uniformed court officer in the unified court system, or a qualified
3 retired court clerk in the unified court system in the first and second
4 judicial departments, as defined in paragraphs a and b of subdivision
5 twenty-one of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law [or], a retired
6 correction officer as defined in subdivision twenty-five of section 2.10
7 of the criminal procedure law, or a retired federal law enforcement
8 officer as defined in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law shall
9 be waived in all counties throughout the state.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
