STATE OF NEW YORK
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1441
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 7, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. BRESLIN, ADAMS, KRUEGER, SAMPSON -- 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 unlawful possession of a
knife upon school grounds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 265.06 of the penal law, as added by chapter 268 of
2 the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 265.06 Unlawful possession of a weapon upon school grounds.
4 It shall be unlawful for any person age sixteen or older to knowingly
5 possess any knife, air-gun, spring-gun or other instrument or weapon in
6 which the propelling force is a spring, air, piston or CO2 cartridge in
7 or upon a building or grounds, used for educational purposes, of any
8 school, college or university, without the written authorization of such
9 educational institution.
10 Unlawful possession of a weapon upon school grounds is a violation.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05111-01-1
