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PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title J - Offenses Involving Theft
Article 158 - Welfare Fraud
158.50 - Criminal Possession of Public Benefit Cards in the First Degree.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 158.50 (2019)
§ 158.50 Criminal possession of public benefit cards in the firstdegree.
A person is guilty of criminal possession of public benefit cards in the first degree when he or she with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, knowingly possesses twenty-five or more public benefit cards in a name or names other than the person's own name.
Criminal possession of public benefit cards in the first degree is a class C felony.
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