STATE OF NEW YORK
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690
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 authorizing the sheriff of
any county to issue pistol permits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 265.00 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 210 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 10. "Licensing officer" means in the city of New York the police
5 commissioner of that city; in the county of Nassau the commissioner of
6 police of that county; [in the county of Suffolk the sheriff of that
7 county except] in the towns of Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip
8 and Smithtown, the commissioner of police of [that] Suffolk county; for
9 the purposes of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of
10 state police; and elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court
11 of record having his office in the county of issuance. A license to
12 carry or possess a pistol or revolver under section 400.00 of this chap-
13 ter may also be issued by the sheriff of a county outside of the city of
14 New York if such sheriff elects to become a licensing officer.
15 § 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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