No person shall at any time have or possess a hypodermic syringe or needle or any other instrument or implement adapted for the use of narcotic or dangerous drugs by subcutaneous injection or intracutaneous injection or any other manner or method of introduction and which is possessed for that purpose, unless such possession is authorized by the certificate of a licensed medical doctor or osteopathic physician issued within the period of one year; provided that the prohibition contained in this division shall not apply to manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers, licensed medical technicians, technologists, nurses, hospitals, research teaching institutions, clinical laboratories, medical doctors, embalmers in the normal legal course of their respective business or profession, nor to persons suffering from diabetes, asthma, or any other medical condition requiring self-injection. The prohibition contained in § 135.03(D) shall not apply to manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers, licensed medical technicians, technologists, nurses, hospitals, research teaching institutions, clinical laboratories, medical doctors, osteopathic physicians, dentists, chiropodists, veterinarians, pharmacists, or embalmers in the normal, lawful course of their respective businesses or professions, nor to common carriers or warehousers or their employees engaged in the lawful transportation of such paraphernalia, nor to public officers or employees while engaged in the performance of their official duties, nor to persons suffering from diabetes, asthma, or any other medical condition requiring self injections.
(2011 Code, § 8.24.040) (Ord. 96, passed - -1978; Ord. 128, passed - -1986) Penalty, see § 135.99