(a) No person shall convey or attempt to convey into any hospital, sanitarium or other place of confinement for the ill or convalescent, other than a private dwelling, any intoxicating liquor or a stimulating sedative or narcotic medicine such as cocaine, opium, chloral, chloroform or ether, except in accordance with the rules of the institution involved or unless the same is prescribed by a physician in attendance at such institution; nor shall any person admitted as a patient at any such hospital, sanitarium or other place of confinement for the ill or convalescent, other than a private dwelling, have in his or her possession, or attempt to induce others to obtain for him or her, any such liquor or drug unless the same is authorized by a physician in attendance at such institution nor shall any person in the employ of any hospital, sanitarium or other place of confinement for the ill or convalescent, other than a private dwelling, knowingly permit a patient confined therein to receive any such liquor or drug unless the same is prescribed by a physician in attendance at such institution.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of conveying intoxicating liquors or drugs into hospitals, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. No. 1020-76. Passed 6-14-76, eff. 6-18-76)