PL 220.44 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds Class B felony
§ 220.44 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds.
  A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled  substance  in  or
near school grounds when he knowingly and unlawfully sells:
  1.  a controlled substance in violation of any one of subdivisions one
through six-a of section 220.34 of this chapter, when  such  sale  takes
place upon school grounds or on a school bus; or
  2.  a controlled substance in violation of any one of subdivisions one
through eight of section 220.39 of this chapter, when  such  sale  takes
place upon school grounds or on a school bus.
  3.  a controlled substance in violation of any one of subdivisions one
through six of section 220.34 of this  article,  when  such  sale  takes
place upon the grounds of a child day care or educational facility under
circumstances  evincing  knowledge  by  the  defendant that such sale is
taking place upon such grounds; or
  4. a controlled substance in violation of any one of subdivisions  one
through  eight  of  section 220.39 of this article, when such sale takes
place upon the grounds of a child day care or educational facility under
circumstances evincing knowledge by the  defendant  that  such  sale  is
taking place upon such grounds.
  5.  For  purposes of subdivisions three and four of this section, "the
grounds of a child day care or educational facility" means (a) in or  on
or  within any building, structure, athletic playing field, a playground
or land contained within the real property boundary line of a public  or
private  child  day care center as such term is defined in paragraph (c)
of subdivision one  of  section  three  hundred  ninety  of  the  social
services  law,  or nursery, pre-kindergarten or kindergarten, or (b) any
area accessible to the public located within one thousand  feet  of  the
real  property  boundary line comprising any such facility or any parked
automobile or other parked vehicle located within one thousand  feet  of
the  real  property  boundary line comprising any such facility. For the
purposes of this section an "area accessible to the public"  shall  mean
sidewalks, streets, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, stores and restau-
rants.
  6. For the purposes of this section, a rebuttable presumption shall be
established that a person has knowledge that they are within the grounds
of a child day care or educational facility when notice is conspicuously
posted of the presence or proximity of such facility.
  Criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds is a
class B felony.

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