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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred 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    S 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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