New York legal term
Narcotic drug in New York Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New York legislative session
In New York criminal law, “Narcotic drug” 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 “Narcotic drug” mean in New York criminal law?
"Narcotic drug" means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: (a) opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate; (b) any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in paragraph (a) of this subdivision, but not including the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium; (c) opium poppy and (N.Y. Public Health Law § 3302)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Sex trafficking
- Criminal injection of a narcotic drug
- Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree
- Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree
- Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree
- Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree
- Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree
- Operating as a major trafficker
Related terms in the same statutes
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