STATE OF NEW YORK
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4703
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. B. MILLER, BLANKENBUSH, FRIEND, McDONOUGH --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PALMESANO -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the regulation of pseu-
doephedrine
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 220.72 of the penal law, as added by chapter 394
2 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 220.72 Criminal possession of precursors of methamphetamine.
4 A person is guilty of criminal possession of precursors of methamphe-
5 tamine when he or she: 1. possesses at the same time a precursor and a
6 solvent or chemical reagent, with intent to use or knowing that another
7 intends to use each such precursor, solvent or chemical reagent to
8 unlawfully manufacture methamphetamine.
9 2. purchases or sells an amount in excess of 3.6 grams a day or 9.0
10 grams per month of pseudoephedrine without regard to the number of tran-
11 sactions.
12 Criminal possession of precursors of methamphetamine is a class E
13 felony.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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