STATE OF NEW YORK
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3051
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 1, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession of
marihuana in the fifth degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 221.10 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 265 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. marihuana in a public place, as defined in section 240.00 of this
5 chapter, and such marihuana is burning [or open to public view]; or
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09169-01-9
