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
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                                         7169
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 1, 2014
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       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
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