2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 216-C - Special Provisions for Cutlery and Knife Museums That Exhibit Automatic Knifes.

§ 216-c. Special provisions for cutlery and knife museums that exhibit
  automatic knives. 1. For the purposes of this section:
a.  "automatic  knife" has the meaning defined therefor in subdivision
  five-c of section 265.00 of the penal law.
b. "cutlery and knife museum" means either: (i) a  cutlery  and  knife
  museum  or  institution  that  is located in Orange, Sullivan, or Ulster
  county  which  is  devoted  to  the  public  exhibition,   display,   or
  demonstration  of  cutlery  and  knives,  including  an  automatic knife
  collection, and is incorporated for the  promotion  of  art,  education,
  history, and science, or for preserving the cultural significance of the
  manufacture  of  knives  and cutlery in the Hudson valley and throughout
  the United States, or (ii) any other museum or institution, which is not
  located in a city having a population of one million or  more,  that  is
  incorporated  for  the promotion of art, education, history, and science
  and which offers for public display or  exhibition  an  automatic  knife
  collection.
2.  A  cutlery  and  knife  museum  that  wishes  to exhibit, show, or
  display, in whole or in part,  an  automatic  knife  collection  may  be
  chartered,  established,  or  otherwise permitted to operate and conduct
  its business pursuant to the provisions of this section and section  two
  hundred  sixteen  of this part. Any such museum shall also be subject to
  the other sections of this part applicable to museums  or  institutions;
  provided that this section shall supersede any inconsistent provision of
  any  other  section  of this part applicable to museums or institutions,
  except section two hundred sixteen of this part.
3. All applicants for a  cutlery  and  knife  museum  subject  to  the
  provisions  of  this  section,  who  plan  to  exhibit, show, or display
  automatic knives, shall be fingerprinted. Any  other  person  thereafter
  seeking to become a director, officer, employee, or agent of such museum
  shall  be  fingerprinted.  Such  fingerprints  shall be submitted to the
  division of criminal justice  services  for  a  state  criminal  history
  record  check,  as  defined in subdivision one of section three thousand
  thirty-five of this chapter, and may be submitted to the federal  bureau
  of investigation for a national criminal history record check.
4.  Every  museum  that  contains,  displays, exhibits or demonstrates
  cutlery, knives and/or automatic knives that are unlawful to possess  in
  this  state  shall implement and submit for approval a security plan for
  securing such cutlery, knives and automatic knives to  the  division  of
  state   police   or   police   department  or  sheriff's  office  having
  jurisdiction over the museum. The security  plan  will  detail  specific
  measures  that  would be used to prevent the unlawful use of such items.
  The division of state police or police department  or  sheriff's  office
  having  jurisdiction  over  the museum shall review the plan and certify
  whether it meets statutory requirements. Such plan must satisfy at least
  the following requirements:
a. The building in  which  all  cutlery,  knife  and  automatic  knife
  collections  are  housed  shall  be  secured against unauthorized entry,
  using heavy duty locks and doors  that  are  resistant  to  damage,  and
  windows shall be resistant to breakage.
b.  The  display  and exhibition cases shall be securely locked at all
  times except when removing a single cutlery, knife  or  automatic  knife
  item to be placed in storage or on display; and
c.  When not displayed, all cutlery, knives and automatic knives shall
  be secured in a locked fireproof safe or vault on the premises or  in  a
  similar secured and locked area.
5.  All  cutlery  and  knife museums subject to the provisions of this
  section that wish to ship or loan cutlery, knives or automatic knives to
  other licensed museums shall notify in writing and obtain approval  from

  the  division  of  state  police. Additionally, any museum that does not
  contain, display, exhibit or demonstrate cutlery,  knives  or  automatic
  knives  that are unlawful to possess prior to the effective date of this
  section shall implement and submit for approval a security plan pursuant
  to subdivision four of this section prior to obtaining such items.
6.  No  cutlery  and  knife  museum, subject to the provisions of this
  section, may introduce automatic knives  into  its  premises  until  the
  division of state police or police department or sheriff's office having
  jurisdiction  over  the  museum has inspected the equipment and building
  features specified in subdivisions four and five  of  this  section  and
  certified  in  writing  that  all  of  them are in compliance with their
  statutory requirements.
7. All cutlery and knife museums, subject to the  provisions  of  this
  section, shall be allowed to possess, own, collect, accept, and purchase
  automatic  knives to further their activities to promote art, education,
  history,  and  science,  and  for  the  preservation  of  the   cultural
  significance of the manufacture of cutlery and knives in New York state.