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PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title K - Offenses Involving Fraud
Article 178 - Criminal Diversion of Prescription Medications and Prescriptions
178.15 - Criminal Diversion of Prescription Medications and Prescriptions in the Third Degree.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 178.15 (2021)
§ 178.15 Criminal diversion of prescription medications andprescriptions in the third degree.
A person is guilty of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the third degree when he or she:
1. commits a criminal diversion act, and the value of the benefit exchanged is in excess of one thousand dollars; or
2. commits the crime of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the fourth degree, and has previously been convicted of the crime of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the fourth degree.
Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the third degree is a class E felony.
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