(a) Fixed Sale Location Required. No person, except a person who is at the time of a sale actually employed by or engaged in operating a bona fide commercial establishment at a fixed location, shall sell to any person any product containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes, and all sales of such product not made in or from such an establishment are hereby prohibited.
(b) Sale Restrictions. No person shall knowingly sell or offer for sale, deliver or give away to any person any substance containing any of the following volatile solvents, where the seller, offerer or deliverer knows or has reason to believe that the substance will be used for the purpose of inducing symptoms of intoxication, elation, dizziness, paralysis or irrational behavior or in any manner change, distort or disturb the audio, visual or mental processes: toluol, hexane, trichlorethylene, acetone, toluene, ethyl acetate, methyl ethyl ketone, trichloroethene, isopropanol, methyl isobutyl ketone, methyl cellosolve acetate, cyclohexanone or any other substance which will induce symptoms of intoxication, elation, dizziness, paralysis or irrational behavior or in any manner change, distort or disturb the audio, visual or mental processes.
(c) Possession for Purpose of Inhalation Prohibited.
(1) No person shall, for the purpose of causing a condition of intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction or the dulling or his or her brain or nervous system, intentionally smell or inhale the fumes from any substance containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes, provided that nothing in this section shall be interpreted as applying to the inhalation of any anesthesia for medical or dental purposes.
(2) No person shall, for the purpose of violating division (c)(1) of this section, use, or possess for the purpose of using, any product containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes.
(d) Penalty. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(Ord. 2417. Passed 6-15-76.)