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N.Y. Penal Law § 220.43: Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 3. Specific Offenses
  3. Title M. Offenses Against Public Health and Morals
  4. Article 220. Controlled Substances Offenses

§ 220.43 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.

A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the

first degree when he knowingly and unlawfully sells:

1. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances

containing a narcotic drug and the preparations, compounds, mixtures or

substances are of an aggregate weight of two ounces or more; or

2. methadone and the methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred

eighty milligrams or more.

Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree is a class

A-I felony.

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