New York A 3261: Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous meeting

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A03261 Summary:

BILL NOA03261 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05372

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SPONSORMcDonald

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §220.66, Pen L

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Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous meeting; designates such crime as a class E felony.

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BILL NOA03261 

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01/27/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3261

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
 criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a drug or
 alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anony-
 mous meeting

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 220.66 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 220.66 Criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a
 4 drug or alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anonymous or
 5 narcotics anonymous meeting.
 6 1. A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance upon
 7 the grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anony-
 8 mous or narcotics anonymous meeting when such person knowing and unlaw-
 9 fully sells a controlled substance in violation of:
 10 (a) subdivision one, two, four, five, six or six-a of section 220.34
 11 of this article, when such sale takes place upon the grounds of a drug
 12 or alcohol treatment center, upon the grounds of an alcoholics anonymous
 13 meeting, or upon the grounds of a narcotics anonymous meeting; or
 14 (b) subdivision one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight of
 15 section 220.39 of this article, when such sale takes place upon the
 16 grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center, upon the grounds of an
 17 alcoholics anonymous meeting, or upon the grounds of a narcotics anony-
 18 mous meeting.
 19 2. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
 20 the following meanings:
 21 (a) "Upon the grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center" means:
 22 (i) In, on or within any building, structure, parking lot or land
 23 contained within the real property boundary line of any facility that

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06201-01-5

 A. 3261 2

 1 provides addiction disorder services, as defined by subdivision fifty-
 2 five of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, or a methadone clinic;
 3 or
 4 (ii) Any area accessible to the public located within one thousand
 5 feet of the real property boundary line comprising any facility which
 6 provides addiction disorder services, as defined in subdivision fifty-
 7 five of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, or any methadone clinic,
 8 or any parked automobile or other parked vehicle located within one
 9 thousand feet of the real property boundary line comprising such a
 10 facility or methadone clinic.
 11 (b) "Area accessible to the public" means sidewalks, streets, parking
 12 lots, parks, playgrounds, stores and restaurants.
 13 (c) "Upon the grounds of an alcoholics anonymous meeting" means:
 14 (i) In, on or within any building, structure, parking lot or land
 15 contained within the real property boundary line of any facility which
 16 provides a meeting place for alcoholics anonymous, when such group is
 17 registered as a meeting place with the General Service Office of Alco-
 18 holics Anonymous; or
 19 (ii) Any area accessible to the public located within one thousand
 20 feet of the real property boundary line comprising any facility which
 21 provides a meeting place for alcoholics anonymous, when such group is
 22 registered as a meeting place with the General Service Office of Alco-
 23 holics Anonymous, or any parked automobile or other parked vehicle