STATE OF NEW YORK
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1601
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- 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 adding Ulster county sher-
iff as an additional firearms licensing officer
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 and
8 Smithtown, the commissioner of police of that county; for the purposes
9 of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of state police; in
10 the county of Ulster the sheriff of that county as well as judges or
11 justices of a court of record having an office in the county of Ulster;
12 and elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court of record
13 having his office in the county of issuance.
14 § 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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