STATE OF NEW YORK
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9086
IN ASSEMBLY
January 18, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the recertification of
firearm licenses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 10 of section 400.00 of the
2 penal law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 (b) All licensees shall be recertified to the division of state police
5 every five years thereafter. Any license issued before the effective
6 date of [the] chapter one of the laws of two thousand thirteen [which
7 added this paragraph] shall be recertified by the licensee on or before
8 January thirty-first, two thousand [eighteen] nineteen, and not less
9 than one year prior to such date, the state police shall send a notice
10 to all license holders who have not recertified by such time. Such
11 recertification shall be in a form as approved by the superintendent of
12 state police, which shall request the license holder's name, date of
13 birth, gender, race, residential address, social security number,
14 firearms possessed by such license holder, email address at the option
15 of the license holder and an affirmation that such license holder is not
16 prohibited from possessing firearms. The form may be in an electronic
17 form if so designated by the superintendent of state police. Failure to
18 recertify shall act as a revocation of such license. If the New York
19 state police discover as a result of the recertification process that a
20 licensee failed to provide a change of address, the New York state
21 police shall not require the licensing officer to revoke such license.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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