Every person who owns, conducts, operates or manages a retail commercial establishment selling etching cream, aerosol containers, or marker pens with tips exceeding four millimeters in width, containing anything other than a solution which can be removed with water after it dries, shall store or cause such etching cream, aerosol containers or marker pens to be stored in an area viewable by, but not accessible to the public in the regular course of business without employee assistance, pending legal sale or disposition of such etching cream, marker pens or aerosol containers. For purposes of this section, "etching cream" means any caustic cream, gel, liquid, or solution capable, by means of a chemical action, of defacing, damaging, or destroying hard surfaces in a manner similar to acid.
(Ord. MC-1145, 6-17-03; Ord. MC-867, 4-06-93)