Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the fourth degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 178.10 Criminal diversion of prescription medications and
prescriptions in the fourth degree.
A person is guilty of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the fourth degree when he or she commits a criminal diversion act.
Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.
A person commits fourth-degree criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions by committing a criminal diversion act. ★ The offense is a class A misdemeanor.
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.