Public Health Law § 3304 · Title 1. General Provisions
Prohibited acts
Text — Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
* § 3304. Prohibited acts. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, prescribe, distribute, dispense, administer, possess, have under his control, abandon, or transport a controlled substance except as expressly allowed by this article.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or have under his control an official New York state prescription form except as expressly allowed by this article.
* NB Separately amended -- cannot be put together
* § 3304. Prohibited acts. a. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, prescribe, distribute, dispense, administer, possess, have under his control, abandon, or transport a controlled substance except as expressly allowed by this article.
b. It shall be unlawful for any physician practicing medicine as defined in section sixty-five hundred twenty-one of the education law to prescribe, dispense or administer any amphetamines or sympathomimetic amine drug or compound thereof, designated as a schedule II controlled substance pursuant to section thirty-three hundred six of this article for the exclusive treatment of obesity, weight control or weight loss. A violation of the provisions of this subdivision shall not be grounds for prosecution under article two hundred twenty of the penal law.
* NB Separately amended -- cannot be put together
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- Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
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- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/PBH3304
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- The Senate's note "Separately amended -- cannot be put together": separate amendments it could not combine are printed one after the other.
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