File #: Int 1016-2024    Version: Name: Consumer warnings regarding rifles, shotguns, and firearms.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 9/12/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to consumer warnings regarding rifles, shotguns, and firearms
Sponsors: Erik D. Bottcher, Julie Menin, Sandy Nurse, Lynn C. Schulman, Oswald J. Feliz, Yusef Salaam, Kamillah Hanks, Keith Powers , Farah N. Louis, Christopher Marte, Sandra Ung, Lincoln Restler, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Amanda C. Farías, Mercedes Narcisse, Gale A. Brewer, Justin L. Brannan, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Tiffany L. Cabán, Shaun Abreu, Eric Dinowitz, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Kevin C. Riley, Diana I. Ayala, Alexa Avilés, Crystal Hudson, Julie Won, Shekar Krishnan, Chi A. Ossé, Althea V. Stevens, Jennifer Gutiérrez
Council Member Sponsors: 31
Summary: The New York State Penal Law requires gun dealers and licensing officers to display written warnings about the risks associated with accessing firearms. This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to design graphic images to accompany the written warnings required by state law. Gun dealers and licensing officers would be responsible for displaying or disseminating such graphic images alongside the written warnings. DOHMH would also publish the graphic images on their website. Failure to display or disseminate the graphic images would result in a violation punishable by a civil penalty in the amount of $5,000 for the first offense and $10,000 for a second offense in a 12-month period.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1016-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1016, 3. Int. No. 1016, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12-24, 5. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 12, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/17/25, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 10. Hearing Testimony 6/17/25, 11. Hearing Transcript 6/17/25, 12. Proposed Int. No. 1016-A - 10/22/25, 13. Committee Report 10/29/25, 14. Hearing Transcript 10/29/25, 15. Int. No. 1016-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 16. Int. No. 1016-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 17. October 29, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
10/29/2025AErik D. Bottcher City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025AErik D. Bottcher City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025AErik D. Bottcher Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/17/2025*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/17/2025*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/12/2024*Erik D. Bottcher City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/12/2024*Erik D. Bottcher City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1016-A

 

By Council Members Bottcher, Menin, Nurse, Schulman, Feliz, Salaam, Hanks, Powers, Louis, Marte, Ung, Restler, Brooks-Powers, Farías, Narcisse, Brewer, Brannan, Sanchez, Cabán, Abreu, Dinowitz, De La Rosa, Riley, Ayala, Avilés, Hudson, Won, Krishnan, Ossé, Stevens and Gutiérrez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to consumer warnings regarding rifles, shotguns, and firearms

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 10-313 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 236 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:

§ 10-313 Mandatory disclosure of gun violence information.

a. [Prior to issuing a license or permit for possession of a firearm, the department must provide applicants with the following statement in printed form: “Warning: The presence of a firearm in the home is associated with an increased risk of suicide, death during domestic violence disputes, and unintentional deaths to children and others.”] Upon the issuance of or amendment to a license or permit for possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, the police department shall provide the licensee or permittee, as applicable, a graphic warning or warnings designed pursuant to subdivision c of this section together with the notice required pursuant to subdivision 20 of section 400.00 of the penal law.

b. Where a dealer in firearms displays or otherwise provides the notice required pursuant to subdivision 20 of section 400.00 of the penal law, adjacent to such notice shall be a graphic warning sign designed pursuant to subdivision c of this section. Such graphic warning sign shall be unobstructed in its entirety.

c. The department of health and mental hygiene shall:

1. Design one or more graphic warnings that depict the nature of the health and safety risks described in the notice required pursuant to subdivision 20 of section 400.00 of the penal law; and

2. Publish and make available on its website the graphic warnings designed pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision.

d. Any person who violates subdivision b of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty in the amount of $5,000 for a first violation within any 12-month period or $10,000 for a second or subsequent violation within any 12-month period.

e. The department of health and mental hygiene may enact any rules that are necessary to implement subdivision c of this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 210 days after it becomes law.

AM/JLB

LS #9682 & 9689

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