Prohibits individuals adjudicated as youthful offenders for any offense listed under article one hundred twenty-five of the penal law, from possessing firearms, rifles and shotguns.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5699
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, MONTESANO, CALHOUN, BURLING, MOLINARO,
CORWIN, FINCH, OAKS, HAWLEY, MALLIOTAKIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. GOODELL, KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting individuals
adjudicated as youthful offenders from possessing certain weapons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 "Nikki's law".
3 § 2. Section 265.01 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
5 (4-a) He possesses a rifle or shotgun and has been adjudicated as a
6 youthful offender on or after the effective date of the chapter of the
7 laws of two thousand eleven which added this subdivision for any offense
8 listed under article one hundred twenty-five of this chapter unless such
9 person has been granted a certificate of relief from disabilities pursu-
10 ant to article twenty-three of the correction law; or
11 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law is amended by
12 adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
13 (c-1) who has not been adjudicated as a youthful offender on or after
14 the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand eleven
15 which added this paragraph for any offense listed under article one
16 hundred twenty-five of this chapter unless such person has been granted
17 a certificate of relief from disabilities pursuant to article twenty-
18 three of the correction law;
19 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
20 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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