No person except a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retail dealer in surgical instruments, or the owner of a pharmacy, pharmacist, practitioner, nurse, or other person authorized to administer narcotic drugs, shall sell or possess a hypodermic syringe, needle, or any instrument or implement adopted for the purpose of administering habit-forming drugs, unless the sale or possession is authorized by the certificate of a physician issued within the period of one year.
(Ord. 1020.5, passed - -71) Civil offense, see § 38.15