STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1032
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens. BONACIC, AMEDORE, LARKIN -- 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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