STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4911

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 prohibiting the sale of a
          firearm, rifle, shotgun or ammunition on state property

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

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.67 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 265.67 Unlawful sale of a firearm, rifle,  shotgun  or  ammunition  on
     4             state property.
     5    1.  For  the  purposes of this section the term "state property" shall
     6  mean all property owned by the state and shall include:
     7    (a) all county, city and municipal property; and
     8    (b) any fairground located on state, county, city or municipal proper-
     9  ty.
    10    2. It shall be unlawful for any state officer or employee,  or  opera-
    11  tor, lessee, or licensee of any state property, to contract for, author-
    12  ize,  or  allow the sale of any firearm, rifle, shotgun or ammunition on
    13  state property or in the buildings that sit on state property or proper-
    14  ty otherwise owned, leased, occupied, or operated by the state.
    15    3. This section does not apply to any of the following:
    16    (a) A gun buyback event held by a law enforcement agency.
    17    (b) The sale of a firearm or ammunition on state property that  occurs
    18  pursuant  to  a contract that was entered into before January first, two
    19  thousand twenty-four.
    20    (c) The purchase of a firearm, rifle, shotgun or ammunition  on  state
    21  property  by  a  law  enforcement  agency  in  the course of its regular
    22  duties.
    23    Unlawful sale of a firearm, rifle,  shotgun  or  ammunition  on  state
    24  property is a class A misdemeanor.
    25    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09331-01-3