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Senate Bill S4648

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of criminal possession of a weapon while in unlawful possession of a controlled substance or marihuana

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2009-S4648 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A499
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง265.18, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2970
2013-2014: S1749

2009-S4648 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of criminal possession of a weapon while in unlawful possession of a controlled substance or marihuana.

2009-S4648 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S4648 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4648

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  STACHOWSKI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession  of  a
  weapon while in unlawful possession of a controlled substance or mari-
  huana

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.18  to
read as follows:
S 265.18 CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON WHILE IN UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF
           A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR MARIHUANA.
  A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON WHILE IN UNLAW-
FUL POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR MARIHUANA  WHEN  HE  OR  SHE
PHYSICALLY  POSSESSES  A  WEAPON  IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 265.01 OF THIS
ARTICLE WHILE, AT THE SAME  TIME,  HE  OR  SHE  PHYSICALLY  POSSESSES  A
CONTROLLED  SUBSTANCE  IN  VIOLATION  OF  SECTION 220.03 OR MARIHUANA IN
VIOLATION OF SECTION 221.15 OF THIS CHAPTER.
  CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON WHILE  IN  UNLAWFUL  POSSESSION  OF  A
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR MARIHUANA IS A CLASS E FELONY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02487-01-9

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