Relates to criminal sale of a controlled substance; adds the sale of one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing carfentanil to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second and first degrees.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN SENATE
October 14, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal sale of a
controlled substance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 220.41 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivi-
3 sion 8 is added to read as follows:
4 7. methadone and the methadone weighs three hundred sixty milligrams
5 or more[.]; or
6 8. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances
7 containing carfentanil and said preparations, compounds, mixtures or
8 substances are an aggregate weight of two milligrams or more.
9 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 220.43 of the penal law, as amended by
10 chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivision 3 is
11 added to read as follows:
12 2. methadone and the methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred
13 eighty milligrams or more[.]; or
14 3. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances
15 containing carfentanil and said preparations, compounds, mixtures or
16 substances are an aggregate weight of ten milligrams or more.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
18 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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