A 4518: Relates to adding additional objects which a person would be guilty of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree if such person knowingly possesses or sells such objects.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4518 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee 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. LBD04117-01-5