179.15 - Criminal Retention of Medical Marihuana.

NY Penal L § 179.15 (2019) (N/A)
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A person is guilty of criminal retention of medical marihuana when, being a certified patient or designated caregiver, as those terms are defined in subdivisions three and five of section thirty-three hundred sixty of the public health law, respectively, he or she knowingly obtains, possesses, stores or maintains an amount of marihuana in excess of the amount he or she is authorized to possess under the provisions of title five-A of article thirty-three of the public health law.

Criminal retention of medical marihuana is a class A misdemeanor.

* NB Repealed July 5, 2021