Bill Text: NY A05989 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to adding additional objects which a person would be guilty of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree if he or she knowingly possesses or sells such objects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A05989 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05989-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5989
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 26, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law, in relation to criminally using drug
          paraphernalia in the second degree
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 220.50 of the penal law, as added
     2  by chapter 627 of the laws of 1990, is amended and a new  subdivision  4
     3  is added to read as follows:
     4    3. Scales and balances used or designed for the purpose of weighing or
     5  measuring  controlled substances, under circumstances evincing an intent
     6  to use, or under  circumstances  evincing  knowledge  that  some  person
     7  intends  to use, the same for purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, pack-
     8  aging or dispensing of any narcotic drug or stimulant[.]; or
     9    4. Objects including, but  not  limited  to:  pipes  with  or  without
    10  screens,  glass  tubing,  pipe screens, steel wool, or miniature spoons,
    11  capable for use in ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the
    12  human body, a controlled substance,  possession  of  which  is  unlawful
    13  under  this  chapter,  under circumstances evincing an intent to use, or
    14  under circumstances evincing knowledge that some person intends  to  use
    15  the same, unlawfully.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    17  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.
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