Bill Text: NY S07169 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the presumption of intent to sell: possession of fifty or more individual packages containing heroin is presumptive evidence that such person possessed such controlled substance with intent to sell.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 22-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-09 - referred to codes [S07169 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S07169-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7169 I N S E N A T E May 1, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BOYLE, GOLDEN -- 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 creating a presumption of intent to sell 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 220.26 to 2 read as follows: 3 S 220.26 PRESUMPTION OF INTENT TO SELL. 4 FOR THE PURPOSES OF A PROSECUTION OF A CHARGE UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF 5 SECTION 220.16 OF THIS ARTICLE, THE POSSESSION OF FIFTY OR MORE INDIVID- 6 UAL PACKAGES CONTAINING THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE DEFINED UNDER SUBPARA- 7 GRAPH ELEVEN OF PARAGRAPH (C) OF SCHEDULE I OF SECTION THIRTY-THREE 8 HUNDRED SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND/OR THE POSSESSION OF SUCH 9 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN AN AMOUNT HAVING AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF THREE 10 HUNDRED DOLLARS OR MORE, IS PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE THAT SUCH PERSON 11 POSSESSED SUCH CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITH INTENT TO SELL IT. 12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13664-03-4