Bill Text: NY A03585 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3585 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that a person may not possess a weapon while on a mass transit service used by a transit agency, authority, or company.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-28 - referred to codes [A03585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03585-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3585
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. ESPINAL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the possession of a weapon
         on or in vehicles or facilities used for mass  transit  service  by  a
         transit  agency  constituting  criminal  possession of a weapon in the
         third degree
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 265.02 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    (4) SUCH PERSON COMMITS THE CRIME OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF  A  WEAPON
    4  IN  THE  FOURTH  DEGREE  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE, TWO, OR FOUR OF
    5  SECTION 265.01 OF THIS ARTICLE, WHEN SITUATED IN A SUBWAY TRAIN,  SUBWAY
    6  STATION, RAILROAD TRAIN, RAILROAD STATION OR ON A BUS OPERATED BY A MASS
    7  TRANSIT PROVIDER, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, AND SUCH PERSON USES OR ATTEMPTS TO
    8  USE SUCH WEAPON IN THE COMMISSION OF ANOTHER CRIMINAL ACT IN SUCH SUBWAY
    9  TRAIN OR STATION, RAILROAD TRAIN OR STATION, OR BUS; OR
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05814-01-3