Bill Text: NY A02887 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to the purchase or sale of protective body vests

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to codes [A02887 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02887-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2887
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 21, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. KOON, PEOPLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         COOK, DINOWITZ, GALEF, HOOPER, JOHN, LAVINE,  MAYERSOHN,  ROBINSON  --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
       AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to the purchase or sale of
         protective body vests
         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 270.40 to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 270.40 UNLAWFUL PURCHASING OR SELLING OF A BODY VEST.
    4    1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL PURCHASING OR SELLING OF A BODY VEST
    5  WHEN HE OR SHE PURCHASES OR SELLS, OR OFFERS TO PURCHASE OR SELL, A BODY
    6  VEST AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 270.20 OF THIS ARTICLE.
    7    2. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO POLICE  OFFICERS,
    8  AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL
    9  PROCEDURE LAW, PEACE OFFICERS, AS LISTED IN SECTION 2.10 OF THE CRIMINAL
   10  PROCEDURE LAW, AND ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL OF THE UNITED  STATES  OR  ANY
   11  ONE OF SUCH STATES. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, A PERSON WHO REGULARLY SELLS BODY
   12  VESTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OR MILITARY PERSONNEL SHALL ALSO BE EXEMPT FROM
   13  THE  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION IF THEY KEEP A REGIS-
   14  TER OF THEIR SALES IDENTIFYING TO WHOM THE VEST IS BEING SOLD.
   15    UNLAWFUL PURCHASING OR SELLING OF A BODY VEST IS A CLASS  A  MISDEMEA-
   16  NOR.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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