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PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE*
Title 3 RESERVED
Title 4 BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS*
Title 5 HEALTH AND SANITATION*
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 RESERVED
Title 8 TREES AND VEGETATION
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND SAFETY*
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC*
Title 11 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT PROCEDURE
Title 12 PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
Title 13 IMPROVEMENT PROCEDURE*
Title 14 RESERVED
Title 15 FIRE PREVENTION*
Title 16 BUILDING REGULATIONS*
Title 17 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS STORAGE*
Title 18 ZONING*
Title 19 MASTER PLAN*
Title 20 PRECISE PLANS*
Title 21 SUBDIVISIONS AND OTHER DIVISIONS OF LAND*
Title 22 PARKS*
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
Chapter 4.58
NARCOTICS PARAPHERNALIA SALE AND DISPLAY*
Sections:
   4.58.010   Definition.
   4.58.020   Minors restricted.
   4.58.030   Sale and display rooms.
   4.58.040   Public nuisance.
   4.58.050   Violations.
   *   Editor's Note: Chapter 4.58, formerly codified as Chapter 9.57 of this code, was renumbered and relocated by Section 45 of Ordinance 4453.
4.58.010   Definition.
   For purposes of this chapter, "narcotics paraphernalia" consists of any device, contrivance, instrument or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting or consuming marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, as defined in the Health and Safety Code of the State of California, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs. This definition includes, but is not limited to, such items as coke spoons, water pipes, hash pipes, roach clips, and opium pipes. This definition does not include cigarette papers or cigarette rolling machines.
(Ord. 4453 § 45 (part), 1997: Ord. 3199 § 1 (part), 1980)
4.58.020   Minors restricted.
   No person, including, but not limited to, an owner, manager, proprietor, or salesperson of any place of business selling or displaying for the purpose of sale any narcotics paraphernalia, shall sell or permit to be sold any narcotics paraphernalia to any person under the age of eighteen years.
(Ord. 4453 § 45 (part), 1997: Ord. 3199 § 1 (part), 1980)
4.58.030   Sale and display rooms.
   No person shall sell or offer for sale at any place of business to which the public is invited narcotics paraphernalia, except within a separate room or enclosure to which minors under the age of eighteen years who are not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are excluded. Each entrance to such room or enclosure shall have a sign posted with reasonably visible and legible words to the effect that (1) narcotics paraphernalia are being offered for sale in such room or enclosure; and (2) minors under age eighteen years are excluded unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. No person shall permit any minor under the age of eighteen years to enter, visit, or remain in any such room or enclosure unless such minor is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
(Ord. 4453 § 45 (part), 1997: Ord. 3199 § 1 (part), 1980)
4.58.040   Public nuisance.
   Any violation of this chapter is a public nuisance and may be abated in accordance with Chapter 9.56 of this code and/or Section 731 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Ord. 4453 § 45 (part), 1997: Ord. 3199 § 1 (part), 1980)
4.58.050   Violations.
   Violations of Sections 4.58.020 and/or 4.58.030 are misdemeanors.
(Ord. 4453 § 45 (part), 1997: Ord. 3199 § 1 (part), 1980)