New York legal term
Manufacture in New York Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New York legislative session
In New York criminal law, “Manufacture” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New York criminal code.
What does “Manufacture” mean in New York criminal law?
"Manufacture" means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, cultivation, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance: (a) by a practitioner as an incident to his admin (N.Y. Public Health Law § 3302)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and dangerous instruments and appliances
- Criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an undetectable firearm, rifle or shotgun
- Grand Larceny in the fourth degree
- Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree
- Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the second degree
- Possession of a gambling device
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, marking, altering or modification of equipment and devices associated with gaming
- Criminal possession of methamphetamine manufacturing material in the second degree
- Unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the first degree
- Unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the second degree
Related terms in the same statutes
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