Controlled substances may be possessed only in original container -- Penalties
Known as the Kentucky Controlled Substances Act
The act spans §§ 218–218 (124 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Houston v. Commonwealth (1998)
Most recently applied in United States v. Billy Earle (February 2010)
Effective: July 14, 1992 History: Amended 1992 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person to whom or for whose use any controlled substance has been prescribed, sold, or dispensed, by a practitioner or other person authorized under this chapter, may lawfully possess it only in the container in which it was delivered to him by the person selling or dispensing the same.
(2) Violation of subsection (1) of this section is a Class B misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for subsequent offenses.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.