Criminal injection of a narcotic drug · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 220.46 Criminal injection of a narcotic drug.
A person is guilty of criminal injection of a narcotic drug when he knowingly and unlawfully possesses a narcotic drug and he intentionally injects by means of a hypodermic syringe or hypodermic needle all or any portion of that drug into the body of another person with the latter's consent.
Criminal injection of a narcotic drug is a class E felony.
A person who knowingly and unlawfully possesses a narcotic drug and intentionally injects any amount of it into another person’s body with that person’s consent, using a hypodermic syringe or needle, commits criminal injection of a narcotic drug, 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.