(A) No person, not being a physician, dentist, chiropodist or veterinarian licensed under the laws of this state or of the state where he or she resides, or a registered professional nurse, or a registered embalmer, manufacturer or dealer in embalming supplies, wholesale druggist, manufacturing pharmacist, registered pharmacist, manufacturer of surgical instruments, industrial user, official of any government having possession of the articles hereinafter mentioned by reason of his or her official duties, nurse or a medical laboratory technician acting under the direction of a physician or dentist, employee of an incorporated hospital acting under the direction of its superintendent or officer in immediate charge, or a carrier or messenger engaged in the transportation of such articles, or the holder of a permit issued under Ill. Rev. Stat. Ch. 38, § 22-54, or a farmer engaged in the use of such instruments on livestock, or a person engaged in chemical, clinical, pharmaceutical or other scientific research, shall have in his or her possession a hypodermic syringe, hypodermic needle or any instrument adapted for the use of controlled substances or cannabis by subcutaneous injection.
(B) Any person in possession of a hypodermic syringe, hypodermic needle or any Instrument adapted for the use of a controlled substance or cannabis by subcutaneous injection in violation of this section is guilty of an offense.
(Prior Code, § 47-7.1) Penalty, see § 135.999