A10581-2011 Actions

• Jun 11, 2012: ordered to third reading rules cal.141
• Jun 11, 2012: rules report cal.141
• Jun 11, 2012: reported
• Jun 11, 2012: reported referred to rules
• Jun 6, 2012: referred to codes

A10581-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    10581

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                June 6, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jeffries,
    Silver, Lentol, Rodriguez, Wright, Peoples-Stokes, Gottfried,  Jaffee,
    O'Donnell,  Aubry,  Stevenson,  Roberts,  Gibson,  Perry,  Braunstein,
    Boyland, Rosenthal, Farrell, Camara, Ortiz, Abinanti, Benedetto, Bren-
    nan, Castro, Clark, Cook, Crespo, DenDekker, Dinowitz,  Galef,  Glick,
    Heastie, Hevesi, Kellner, Lavine, Lifton, Linares, Lupardo, M. Miller,
    Morelle,  Moya,  Pretlow,  Reilly,  P. Rivera,  Scarborough,  Schimel,
    Titone) -- (at request of the Governor) -- read once and  referred  to
    the Committee on Codes

  AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to criminal possession of
    marihuana in the fifth degree

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


    Section  1. Section 221.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 265
  of the laws of 1979 and subdivision 2 as amended by chapter  75  of  the
  laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:

  S 221.10 Criminal possession of marihuana in the fifth degree.
    A  person  is  guilty of criminal possession of marihuana in the fifth
  degree when he OR SHE knowingly and unlawfully possesses:

    1. marihuana in a public place, as defined in section 240.00  of  this
  chapter, and such marihuana is burning [or open to public view]; or
    2.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
  containing  marihuana  and  the  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or
  substances are of an aggregate weight of more than twenty-five grams.
    Criminal  possession  of  marihuana  in  the fifth degree is a class B
  misdemeanor.
    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.
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