Criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 220.48 Criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child when, being over twenty-one years old, he or she knowingly and unlawfully sells a controlled substance in violation of section 220.34 or 220.39 of this article to a person less than seventeen years old.
Criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child is a class B felony.
A person older than 21 years who knowingly and unlawfully sells a controlled substance in violation of § 220.34 or § 220.39 to someone younger than 17 years commits criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child, a class B 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.