STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7939

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 2, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to fees charged for a license
          to carry or possess a pistol or revolver in the county of Westchester

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  14  of  section  400.00 of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 195 of the laws  of  2005,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    14.  Fees. In the city of New York and the [county] counties of Nassau
     5  and Westchester, the annual license fee shall be twenty-five dollars for
     6  gunsmiths and fifty dollars for dealers in firearms. In such  city,  the
     7  city council and in the [county] counties of Nassau and Westchester, the
     8  [Board of Supervisors] legislative body of such county shall fix the fee
     9  to be charged for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver and
    10  provide  for  the  disposition of such fees. Elsewhere in the state, the
    11  licensing officer shall collect and pay into  the  county  treasury  the
    12  following  fees: for each license to carry or possess a pistol or revol-
    13  ver, not less than three dollars nor more than ten  dollars  as  may  be
    14  determined  by  the  legislative  body of the county; for each amendment
    15  thereto, three dollars, and five dollars in the county of  Suffolk;  and
    16  for  each  license  issued  to  a  gunsmith  or  dealer in firearms, ten
    17  dollars. The fee for a duplicate license shall be five dollars. The  fee
    18  for  processing  a  license  transfer  between  counties  shall  be five
    19  dollars. The fee for processing a license or renewal thereof for a qual-
    20  ified retired police officer as defined under subdivision thirty-four of
    21  section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, or a qualified retired sher-
    22  iff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff of the city of New York as  defined
    23  under  subdivision two of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, or
    24  a qualified retired bridge and tunnel officer, sergeant or lieutenant of
    25  the triborough bridge and tunnel authority as defined under  subdivision

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  twenty  of  section  2.10  of the criminal procedure law, or a qualified
     2  retired uniformed court officer in the unified court system, or a quali-
     3  fied retired court clerk in the unified court system in  the  first  and
     4  second  judicial departments, as defined in paragraphs a and b of subdi-
     5  vision twenty-one of section 2.10 of the criminal  procedure  law  or  a
     6  retired  correction  officer  as  defined  in subdivision twenty-five of
     7  section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law shall be waived in all  coun-
     8  ties throughout the state.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.