STATE OF NEW YORK
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938
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definitions of
concentrated cannabis and marihuana
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 3302 of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972 and as
3 renumbered by chapter 537 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (a) the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from a
6 plant of the genus Cannabis, except when derived from industrial hemp
7 pursuant to article twenty-nine of the agriculture and markets law; or
8 § 2. Subdivision 21 of section 3302 of the public health law, as added
9 by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972 and as renumbered by chapter 537 of
10 the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
11 21. "Marihuana" means all parts of the plant of the genus Cannabis,
12 whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any
13 part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
14 mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. It does not
15 include: (a) the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the
16 stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other
17 compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the
18 mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or
19 cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of germina-
20 tion; or (b) industrial hemp pursuant to article twenty-nine of the
21 agriculture and markets law.
22 § 3. 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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