There is a newer version of the New York Consolidated Laws
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
220.43 - Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.
NY Penal L § 220.43 (2012) What's This?
§ 220.43 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the
first degree when he knowingly and unlawfully sells:
1. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances
containing a narcotic drug and the preparations, compounds, mixtures or
substances are of an aggregate weight of two ounces or more; or
2. methadone and the methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred
eighty milligrams or more.
Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree is a class
A-I felony.
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