Bill Text: NY S05372 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-21 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05372 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S05372-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5372 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ASHBY, BORRELLO, RHOADS, WEBER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee 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: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06201-01-5S. 5372 2 1 (i) In, on or within any building, structure, parking lot or land 2 contained within the real property boundary line of any facility that 3 provides addiction disorder services, as defined by subdivision fifty- 4 five of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, or a methadone clinic; 5 or 6 (ii) Any area accessible to the public located within one thousand 7 feet of the real property boundary line comprising any facility which 8 provides addiction disorder services, as defined in subdivision fifty- 9 five of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, or any methadone clinic, 10 or any parked automobile or other parked vehicle located within one 11 thousand feet of the real property boundary line comprising such a 12 facility or methadone clinic. 13 (b) "Area accessible to the public" means sidewalks, streets, parking 14 lots, parks, playgrounds, stores and restaurants. 15 (c) "Upon the grounds of an alcoholics anonymous meeting" means: 16 (i) In, on or within any building, structure, parking lot or land 17 contained within the real property boundary line of any facility which 18 provides a meeting place for alcoholics anonymous, when such group is 19 registered as a meeting place with the General Service Office of Alco- 20 holics Anonymous; or 21 (ii) Any area accessible to the public located within one thousand 22 feet of the real property boundary line comprising any facility which 23 provides a meeting place for alcoholics anonymous, when such group is 24 registered as a meeting place with the General Service Office of Alco- 25 holics Anonymous, or any parked automobile or other parked vehicle 26 located within one thousand feet of the real property boundary line 27 comprising such a facility. 28 (d) "Upon the grounds of a narcotics anonymous meeting" means: 29 (i) In, on or within any building, structure, parking lot or land 30 contained within the real property boundary line of any facility which 31 provides a meeting place for narcotics anonymous, when such group is 32 registered as a meeting place with Narcotics Anonymous World Services; 33 or 34 (ii) Any area accessible to the public located within one thousand 35 feet of the real property boundary line comprising any facility which 36 provides a meeting place for narcotics anonymous, when such group is 37 registered as a meeting place with Narcotics Anonymous World Services or 38 any parked automobile or other parked vehicle located within one thou- 39 sand feet of the real property boundary line comprising such a facility. 40 3. For the purposes of this section, a rebuttable presumption shall be 41 established that a person has knowledge that they are upon the grounds 42 of a drug or alcohol treatment center, upon the grounds of an alcoholics 43 anonymous meeting, or upon the grounds of a narcotics anonymous meeting 44 when notice is conspicuously posted in the presence of, or proximity to, 45 such grounds. 46 Criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a drug or 47 alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous 48 meeting is a class E felony. 49 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 50 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
