Bill Text: NY S03741 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increase the minimum distance a firearm may be in the vicinity of school grounds to 1,000 feet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S03741 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03741-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3741
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 13, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the penal law, in
         relation to the minimum distance a firearm may be in the  vicinity  of
         school grounds
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of  section
    2  11-0931  of  the  environmental  conservation  law is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    (2) discharge a firearm or long bow within [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND
    5  feet from a dwelling house, farm building  or  farm  structure  actually
    6  occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occupied facto-
    7  ry or church;
    8    S  2. Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    9  vision 22 to read as follows:
   10    22. "SCHOOL GROUNDS" MEANS (A) IN OR ON OR WITHIN ANY BUILDING, STRUC-
   11  TURE, ATHLETIC PLAYING FIELD, PLAYGROUND OR LAND  CONTAINED  WITHIN  THE
   12  REAL  PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY, PAROCHI-
   13  AL, INTERMEDIATE, JUNIOR HIGH, VOCATIONAL, OR HIGH SCHOOL,  OR  (B)  ANY
   14  AREA  ACCESSIBLE  TO  THE PUBLIC LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF THE
   15  REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE COMPRISING ANY SUCH  SCHOOL  OR  ANY  PARKED
   16  AUTOMOBILE  OR  OTHER PARKED VEHICLE LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF
   17  THE REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE COMPRISING  ANY  SUCH  SCHOOL.  FOR  THE
   18  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION AN "AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC" SHALL MEAN
   19  SIDEWALKS, STREETS, PARKING LOTS, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, STORES AND RESTAU-
   20  RANTS.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08291-01-3