STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1032 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2017 ___________ 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. LBD01334-01-7