Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the third degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 178.15 Criminal diversion of prescription medications and
prescriptions in the third degree.
A person is guilty of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the third degree when he or she:
1. commits a criminal diversion act, and the value of the benefit exchanged is in excess of one thousand dollars; or
2. commits the crime of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the fourth degree, and has previously been convicted of the crime of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the fourth degree.
Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the third degree is a class E felony.
A person commits third-degree criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions when the person:
The offense is a class E 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.