PL 220.65 Criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance or of a controlled substance by a practitioner or pharmacist Class C felony
§ 220.65  Criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance or
             of a controlled substance by a practitioner or pharmacist.
  A person is guilty of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled
substance or of a controlled substance by a practitioner  or  pharmacist
when:  1.  being  a  practitioner,  as  that  term is defined in section
thirty-three hundred two of the public health law, he or  she  knowingly
and  unlawfully sells a prescription for a controlled substance. For the
purposes of this section, a person sells a prescription for a controlled
substance unlawfully when he or she does so other than in good faith  in
the course of his or her professional practice; or
  2.  being  a practitioner or pharmacist, as those terms are defined in
section thirty-three hundred two of the public health law,  he  or  she,
acting  other  than  in  good  faith, while purporting to act within the
scope of the power, authority and privileges of his or her  license,  as
that  term  is defined in section thirty-three hundred two of the public
health law, knowingly and unlawfully sells a controlled substance.
  Criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled  substance  or  of  a
controlled  substance  by  a  practitioner  or  pharmacist  is a class C
felony.

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