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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1373
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
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        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.
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