Bill Text: NY S00685 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 685 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00685 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00685-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           685
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee 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.
                                                                   LBD02370-01-9