Exempts private investigators from restrictions on possessing a weapon in sensitive and restrictive locations while traveling to and from and during the course of their employment and at any necessary and appropriate location during work hours; clarifies that a security guard may possess a weapon going to and from work.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7650
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 30, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to exempting private investi-
gators from restrictions on possessing a weapon in sensitive and
restrictive locations and clarifying where security guards may possess
a weapon
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 265.01-e of the
2 penal law, as added by chapter 371 of the laws of 2022, is amended and a
3 new paragraph (e-1) is added to read as follows:
4 (e) security guards as defined by and registered under article seven-A
5 of the general business law,who are licensed to carry a firearm while
6 traveling to and from work, who have been granted a special armed regis-
7 tration card, while at the location of their employment and during their
8 work hours as such a security guard;
9 (e-1) private investigators licensed under article seven of the gener-
10 al business law, who are licensed to carry a firearm while traveling to
11 and from and during the course of their employment and at any necessary
12 and appropriate location during their work hours as such a private
13 investigator;
14 § 2. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 265.01-d of the penal
15 law, as added by chapter 371 of the laws of 2022, is amended and a new
16 paragraph (d-1) is added to read as follows:
17 (d) security guards as defined by and registered under article seven-A
18 of the general business law, who are licensed to carry a firearm while
19 traveling to and from work, who [has] have been granted a special armed
20 registration card, while at the location of their employment and during
21 their work hours as such a security guard;
22 (d-1) private investigators licensed under article seven of the gener-
23 al business law, who are licensed to carry a firearm while traveling to
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and from and during the course of their employment and at any necessary
2 and appropriate location during their work hours as such a private
3 investigator;
4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
