STATE OF NEW YORK
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1755
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BARCLAY, FINCH, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO --
read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to exemptions for possession
of firearms and other dangerous weapons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph 17 to read as follows:
3 17. Possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as
4 defined in subdivision twenty-three of section 265.00 of this article,
5 by licensed private investigators registered under article seven of the
6 general business law, armed security guards licensed pursuant to article
7 seven-A of the general business law or armored car guards licensed
8 pursuant to article eight-C of the general business law who possess a
9 valid pistol license pursuant to section 400.00 of this chapter and have
10 successfully completed the forty-seven hour firearms training course
11 specified in section eighty-nine-n of the general business law while in
12 the performance of their official duties.
13 § 2. Section 265.20 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
14 subdivision f to read as follows:
15 f. Section 265.01 of this article shall not apply to possession of a
16 truncheon, baton, bludgeon, billy club, blackjack, or similar type weap-
17 on by a licensed private investigator, a licensed armed security officer
18 or armored car guard. Such officer or guard shall be required to have
19 appropriate training, as the superintendent of state police, by regu-
20 lation, may prescribe, in the use of such weapon, including but not
21 limited to the defensive use of such weapon and instruction in the legal
22 use of deadly physical force pursuant to article thirty-five of this
23 chapter. The possession of such weapon shall only be permitted under
24 this section when such officer or guard is engaged in his or her lawful
25 duties related to employment as a licensed armed security officer or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 armored car guard, or in the transportation to or from such person's
2 home to or from his or her place of employment.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
4 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the superintendent of
5 state police may promulgate any rule or regulation related to the train-
6 ing requirement under subdivision f of section 265.20 of the penal law
7 as added by section two of this act.