S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6833
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 19, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the penal law, in
         relation  to  the minimum distance a firearm may be in the vicinity of
         school grounds
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section
    2  11-0931 of the environmental conservation law  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    (2) discharge a firearm or long bow within [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND
    5  feet  from  a  dwelling  house, farm building or farm structure actually
    6  occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occupied facto-
    7  ry or church;
    8    S 2. Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
    9  vision 22 to read as follows:
   10    22. "SCHOOL GROUNDS" MEANS (A) IN OR ON OR WITHIN ANY BUILDING, STRUC-
   11  TURE,  ATHLETIC  PLAYING  FIELD, PLAYGROUND OR LAND CONTAINED WITHIN THE
   12  REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY,  PAROCHI-
   13  AL,  INTERMEDIATE,  JUNIOR  HIGH, VOCATIONAL, OR HIGH SCHOOL, OR (B) ANY
   14  AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND  FEET  OF  THE
   15  REAL  PROPERTY  BOUNDARY  LINE  COMPRISING ANY SUCH SCHOOL OR ANY PARKED
   16  AUTOMOBILE OR OTHER PARKED VEHICLE LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND  FEET  OF
   17  THE  REAL  PROPERTY  BOUNDARY  LINE  COMPRISING ANY SUCH SCHOOL. FOR THE
   18  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION AN "AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC"  SHALL  MEAN
   19  SIDEWALKS, STREETS, PARKING LOTS, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, STORES AND RESTAU-
   20  RANTS.
   21    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08291-01-3