STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession of a
weapon in the third degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 265.02 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 (4) Such person commits the crime of criminal possession of a weapon
4 in the fourth degree as defined in subdivision one, two or four of
5 section 265.01 of this article, when situated in a subway station, rail-
6 road station or terminal, or bus station or terminal, or on a subway
7 train, railroad train, or bus operated by a mass transit provider,
8 public or private, and such person uses or attempts to use such weapon
9 in the commission of another criminal act in such subway station, rail-
10 road station or terminal, or bus station or terminal, or on such subway
11 train, railroad train or bus; or
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 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.
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