Criminal possession of public benefit cards in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 158.50 Criminal possession of public benefit cards in the first
degree.
A person is guilty of criminal possession of public benefit cards in the first degree when he or she with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, knowingly possesses twenty-five 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 first degree is a class C felony.
A person commits first-degree criminal possession of public benefit cards by knowingly possessing 25 or more cards issued in names other than the person’s own, intending to defraud, deceive, or injure another. ★ It is a class C 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.