Assembly Bill A552

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of aggravated criminal sale of marihuana

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A552 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4646
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง221.43, Pen L

2009-A552 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of aggravated criminal sale of marihuana; makes it a class E felony.

2009-A552 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   552

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. JOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  creating  the  crime  of
  aggravated criminal sale of marihuana

  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 221.43  to
read as follows:
S 221.43 AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL SALE OF MARIHUANA.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL SALE OF MARIHUANA WHEN HE OR
SHE  STANDS  CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL SALE OF MARIHUANA IN THE FIFTH DEGREE
AS DEFINED IN SECTION 221.35 OF THIS ARTICLE OR CRIMINAL SALE  OF  MARI-
HUANA IN THE FOURTH DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 221.40 OF THIS ARTICLE,
AND,  WITHIN  THE  PREVIOUS  FIVE YEAR PERIOD, HAS BEEN CONVICTED TWO OR
MORE TIMES, IN SEPARATE CRIMINAL TRANSACTIONS, FOR  WHICH  SENTENCE  WAS
IMPOSED, OF CRIMINAL SALE OF MARIHUANA IN THE FIFTH DEGREE AS DEFINED IN
SECTION  221.35  OF  THIS  ARTICLE  OR CRIMINAL SALE OF MARIHUANA IN THE
FOURTH DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 221.40 OF THIS ARTICLE.
  AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL SALE OF 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.
                                                           LBD02485-01-9

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