Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 220.31 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree when he knowingly and unlawfully sells a controlled substance.
Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree is a class D felony.
Knowingly and unlawfully selling a controlled substance is fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, 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.