A555-2011: Creates the crime of manufacturing a controlled substance in the presence of a child


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Creates the crime of manufacturing a controlled substance in the presence of a child; makes such crime a class E felony.
Sponsor: Lentol Committee: CODES
Law Section: Penal Law
Law: Add S260.12, Pen L

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

                                     555

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 5, 2011
                                 ___________

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

  AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to manufacturing a controlled
    substance in the presence of a child

    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 260.12 to read as follows:
S 260.12 MANUFACTURING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF A CHILD. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF MANUFACTURING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF A CHILD WHEN HE OR SHE MANUFACTURES ANY SUBSTANCE LISTED IN SCHEDULE I, II, III, IV, OR V OF SECTION THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW WHILE A PERSON WHO IS SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER IS IN THE PREMISES WHERE SUCH CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IS BEING MANUFAC- TURED. MANUFACTURING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF A CHILD IS A CLASS E FELONY. S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03459-01-1

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