Bill Text: NY A01373 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of larceny of a controlled substance making it an A-II felony to steal a schedule more than 25 dosage units of a schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance from a pharmacy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A01373 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01373-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of larceny of a controlled substance making it an A-II felony to steal a schedule more than 25 dosage units of a schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance from a pharmacy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A01373 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01373-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1373 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of larceny 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. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 220.80 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 220.80 Larceny of a controlled substance. 4 A person is guilty of larceny of a controlled substance when he or she 5 commits the crime of larceny and the stolen property includes a schedule 6 II, III, IV, or V controlled substance stolen from a pharmacy. For the 7 purposes of this section: 8 1. "Larceny" has the same meaning as defined in section 155.05 of this 9 part. 10 2. "Pharmacy" means any place in which drugs, prescriptions or poisons 11 are possessed for the purpose of compounding, preserving, dispensing or 12 retailing, or in which drugs, prescriptions or poisons are compounded, 13 preserved, dispensed or retailed, or in which such drugs, prescriptions 14 or poisons are by advertising or otherwise offered for sale at retail. 15 3. "Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance" means any 16 substance listed in schedules II, III, IV, and V of section thirty-three 17 hundred six of the public health law. 18 Larceny of a controlled substance is a class A-II felony. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02423-01-7