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2014 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title M - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS
Article 220 - (220.00 - 220.78) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OFFENSES
220.45 - Criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.

NY Penal L § 220.45 (2014) What's This?
220.45 Criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.

A  person  is  guilty of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument
  when he or she knowingly and unlawfully possesses or sells a  hypodermic
  syringe  or  hypodermic  needle.  It  shall  not  be a violation of this
  section when a person obtains and  possesses  a  hypodermic  syringe  or
  hypodermic needle pursuant to section thirty-three hundred eighty-one of
  the public health law.

Criminally   possessing   a   hypodermic   instrument  is  a  class  A
  misdemeanor.

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