Bill Text: NY A01843 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1843

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes the sheriff of any county outside the city of New York to issue pistol permits upon the approval of the county clerk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01843 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01843-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1843

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, BLANKENBUSH, DeSTEFANO, DiPIETRO, FRIEND,
          J. M. GIGLIO,  MILLER, MORINELLO, SMULLEN, JENSEN, ANGELINO, GALLAHAN,
          LEMONDES, MANKTELOW, BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to authorizing the sheriff of
          any county to issue pistol permits

          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
     8  and  Smithtown, the commissioner of police of [that] Suffolk county; for
     9  the purposes of section 400.01 of this  chapter  the  superintendent  of
    10  state  police;  and elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court
    11  of record having his office in the county of issuance.    A  license  to
    12  carry or possess a pistol or revolver under section 400.00 of this chap-
    13  ter may also be issued by the sheriff of a county outside of the city of
    14  New York if such sheriff elects to become a licensing officer.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00383-01-3