Items designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs shall be regulated as follows:
(a) License Required. No person or persons as principal, clerk, agent or servant shall sell any paraphernalia, item, effect, accessory or thing which is designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs as defined by the Ohio Revised Code, without obtaining a license therefor. Such license shall be in addition to any or all other licenses held by applicant.
(b) Application. Application to sell any paraphernalia, item, effect, accessory or thing which is designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs shall be accompanied by the affidavits of the applicant and each and every employee authorized to make such sales that the applicant and each and every employee has never been convicted of a drug related offense.
(c) Minors. No person shall sell or give any paraphernalia, item, effect, accessory or thing which is designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs to any person under eighteen years of age.
(d) Records. Every licensee must keep a record of every paraphernalia, item, effect, accessory or thing which is designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs which is sold and this record shall be open to the inspection of any police officer during normal business hours. Such records shall contain the name, age and address of the purchaser, the name and description of what was purchased, quantity purchased, date and time of sale and the signature of the licensee or agent making the sale.
(e) Penalty. Whoever violates any provision of division (a), (b) or (c) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. If the offender has previously been convicted of any violation of division (a), (b) or (c) hereof then any subsequent violation is a misdemeanor of the first degree. whoever is convicted of a violation of division (d) hereof is subject to license revocation.
(Ord. 82-82. Passed 9-13-82.)