Criminal possession of public benefit cards in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 158.45 Criminal possession of public benefit cards in the second
degree.
A person is guilty of criminal possession of public benefit cards in the second degree when he or she with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, knowingly possesses ten or more public benefit cards in a name or names other than the person's own name.
Criminal possession of public benefit cards in the second degree is a class D felony.
A person commits second-degree criminal possession of public benefit cards by knowingly possessing 10 or more cards issued in names other than the person’s own, intending to defraud, deceive, or injure another. ★ It is a class D felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.