STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           907
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- 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 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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  be,  a  danger  to  himself,  herself  or  to others; provided that such
     2  possession shall be of a pistol or revolver owned by the office  of  the
     3  sheriff  of  the county of Albany or a deputy sheriff thereof, and shall
     4  be  possessed  at  a  firearms training facility operated by such office
     5  while under the supervision, guidance and instruction of a deputy  sher-
     6  iff,  and provided further that such possession occurs during the course
     7  of a firearms familiarity, safety, loading and firing  course  conducted
     8  by  the  office  of  the  sheriff  of the county of Albany in which such
     9  person is enrolled.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have  become  a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed three years
    12  after it shall take effect.