Unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the third degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 220.73 Unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the third degree.
A person is guilty of unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the third degree when he or she possesses at the same time and location, with intent to use, or knowing that another intends to use each such product to unlawfully manufacture, prepare or produce methamphetamine:
1. Two or more items of laboratory equipment and two or more precursors, chemical reagents or solvents in any combination; or
2. One item of laboratory equipment and three or more precursors, chemical reagents or solvents in any combination; or
3. A precursor:
(a) mixed together with a chemical reagent or solvent; or
(b) with two or more chemical reagents and/or solvents mixed together.
Unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the third degree is a class D felony.
A person commits third-degree unlawful methamphetamine manufacture by possessing at the same time and place, intending unlawful manufacture or knowing another has that intent:
The offense is 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.