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Assembly Bill A5044

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates class E felony of criminal employment of a minor in a drug enterprise

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2009-A5044 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง220.67, Pen L

2009-A5044 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates class E felony of criminal employment of a minor in a drug enterprise when a person engages in the criminal sale of a controlled substance and in furtherance thereof he engages the assistance of a person under nineteen years of age.

2009-A5044 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5044

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BRODSKY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SWEENEY
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law, in relation to the crime of criminal
  employment of a minor in a drug enterprise

  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 220.67 to
read as follows:
S 220.67 CRIMINAL EMPLOYMENT OF A MINOR IN A DRUG ENTERPRISE.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL EMPLOYMENT OF A MINOR IN A DRUG  ENTER-
PRISE  WHEN  HE  OR  SHE  SELLS  A  CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN VIOLATION OF
SECTION 220.34 OR 220.39 OF THIS ARTICLE AND IN ACCOMPLISHING SUCH  SALE
HE  OR  SHE  SOLICITS,  REQUESTS, COMMANDS, OR IMPORTUNES A PERSON UNDER
NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE TO ASSIST IN ACCOMPLISHING SUCH SALE.
  CRIMINAL EMPLOYMENT OF A MINOR IN A DRUG ENTERPRISE IS A CLASS E FELO-
NY.
  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  and  shall  apply  to
offenses committed on and after such date.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07998-02-9

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