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History
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 59–3
- Ordered to third reading cal.1974
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
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Relates to adding St. Lawrence county sheriff as an additional firearm licensing officer
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Kenneth Blankenbush
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Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to adding St. Lawrence county sheriff as an additional firearms licensing officer
Purpose
To authorize the St. Lawrence County Sheriff to act as an additional firearms licensing officer
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends § 265.00(10) of the Penal Law, to allow the Sheriff in St. Lawrence County to act as an additional firearms licensing officer.
Section 2 is the effective date.
Existing law
Section 265.00(10) of the Penal Law currently defines "licensing officer" for the purposes of processing firearm licensing applications. This section provides, "licensing officer means in the city of New York the police commissioner of that city; in the county of Nassau the commissioner of police of that county; in the county of Suffolk the sheriff of that county except in the town of Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip, and Smithtown, the commissioner of police of that county; for the purposes of section 400.01 of this chapter the superintendent of the state police; and elsewhere in the state a judge or justice of a court of record having his office in the county of issuance.
Justification
Allowing the St. Lawrence County Sheriff to act as an additional firearms licensing officer should provide for an increase in the ability of St. Lawrence County to process licensing applications. This legislation is introduced at the request of the St. Lawrence Country Board of Legislators.
Legislative history
None.
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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