STATE OF NEW YORK
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                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 10, 2016
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McDonald) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to designating the sheriff of
          the  county  of  Albany  as  a  licensing  officer for the purposes of
          firearms and authorizing the possession in the county of Albany  of  a
          pistol  or  revolver  while  attending a firearms familiarity, safety,
          loading and firing course conducted by the office of  the  sheriff  of
          such  county;  and  providing  for  the repeal of such provisions upon
          expiration thereof
          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; in the  county  of
     9  Albany  the  sheriff  of the county, or a judge or justice of a court of
    10  record having his or her office in such  county;  for  the  purposes  of
    11  section  400.01  of this chapter the superintendent of state police; and
    12  elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court  of  record  having
    13  his office in the county of issuance.
    14    §  2.   Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended by
    15  adding a new paragraph 7-g to read as follows:
    16    7-g. In the county of Albany, possession of a pistol or revolver by  a
    17  person  who  has applied, to the licensing officer of such county, for a
    18  license to possess a pistol or revolver, who  has  not  been  previously
    19  denied a license, been convicted of a felony or serious offense, a fugi-
    20  tive  from  justice,  and who does not appear to be, or pose a threat to
    21  be, a danger to himself,  herself  or  to  others;  provided  that  such
    22  possession  shall  be of a pistol or revolver owned by the office of the
    23  sheriff of the county of Albany or a deputy sheriff thereof,  and  shall
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  be  possessed  at  a  firearms training facility operated by such office
     2  while under the supervision, guidance and instruction of a deputy  sher-
     3  iff,  and provided further that such possession occurs during the course
     4  of  a  firearms familiarity, safety, loading and firing course conducted
     5  by the office of the sheriff of the  county  of  Albany  in  which  such
     6  person is enrolled.
     7    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed  three  years
     9  after it shall take effect.