2009 Alabama Code
Title 13A — CRIMINAL CODE.
Chapter 12 — OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS.
Section 13A-12-212 Unlawful possession or receipt of controlled substances.

Section 13A-12-212

Unlawful possession or receipt of controlled substances.

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of controlled substance if:

(1) Except as otherwise authorized, he possesses a controlled substance enumerated in Schedules I through V.

(2) He obtains by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation or subterfuge or by the alteration of a prescription or written order or by the concealment of a material fact or by the use of a false name or giving a false address, a controlled substance enumerated in Schedules I through V.

(b) Unlawful possession of a controlled substance is a Class C felony.

(Acts 1987, No. 87-603, p. 1047, §3.)

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