2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title M - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS
Article 220 - (220.00 - 220.78) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OFFENSES
220.09 - Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree.


NY Penal L § 220.09 (2012) What's This?
 
  § 220.09 Criminal  possession  of  a  controlled substance in the fourth
             degree.
    A person is guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in
  the fourth degree when he knowingly and unlawfully possesses:
    1.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
  containing a narcotic drug and said preparations, compounds, mixtures or
  substances are of an aggregate weight of one-eighth ounce or more; or
    2.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
  containing methamphetamine, its salts, isomers or salts of  isomers  and
  said preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances are of an aggregate
  weight of one-half ounce or more; or
    3.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
  containing a narcotic  preparation  and  said  preparations,  compounds,
  mixtures or substances are of an aggregate weight of two ounces or more;
  or
    4. a stimulant and said stimulant weighs one gram or more; or
    5.  lysergic  acid  diethylamide  and  said lysergic acid diethylamide
  weighs one milligram or more; or
    6. a hallucinogen and said hallucinogen weighs twenty-five  milligrams
  or more; or
    7. a hallucinogenic substance and said hallucinogenic substance weighs
  one gram or more; or
    8.  a  dangerous  depressant  and such dangerous depressant weighs ten
  ounces or more; or
    9. a depressant and such depressant weighs two pounds or more; or
    10. one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
  containing   concentrated  cannabis  as  defined  in  paragraph  (a)  of
  subdivision four of section  thirty-three  hundred  two  of  the  public
  health  law and said preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances are
  of an aggregate weight of one ounce or more; or
    11. phencyclidine and said  phencyclidine  weighs  two  hundred  fifty
  milligrams or more; or
    12. methadone and said methadone weighs three hundred sixty milligrams
  or more; or
    13.  phencyclidine  and  said phencyclidine weighs fifty milligrams or
  more with intent to sell it and has  previously  been  convicted  of  an
  offense  defined  in this article or the attempt or conspiracy to commit
  any such offense; or
    14. ketamine and said ketamine  weighs  four  thousand  milligrams  or
  more; or
    15.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or substances
  containing gamma hydroxybutyric acid, as defined in  paragraph  four  of
  subdivision (e) of schedule I of section thirty-three hundred six of the
  public  health  law,  and  said  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or
  substances are of an aggregate weight of two hundred grams or more.
    Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree  is
  a class C felony.

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