STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4579
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, BUTLER, MONTESANO, ERRIGO, D'URSO --
          Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. B. MILLER -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to adding St. Lawrence county
          sheriff 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 St. Lawrence the sheriff of that county as well as judges
    11  or justices of a court of record having an office in the county  of  St.
    12  Lawrence;  and  elsewhere  in the state a judge or justice of a court of
    13  record 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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