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2023 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals
Article 220 - Controlled Substances Offenses
220.21 - Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree.

Universal Citation:
NY Penal L § 220.21 (2023)
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§  220.21  Criminal  possession  of  a controlled substance in the first

         degree.

A person is guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in
  the first degree when he or she 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 eight ounces or more; or

2.  methadone  and  said  methadone weighs five thousand seven hundred
  sixty milligrams or more.

Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree is a
  class A-I felony.

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