No person, except a manufacturer or wholesaler or retail dealer in surgical instruments, owner of a pharmacy, pharmacist, practitioner, nurse or other authorized to administer narcotic drugs, shall sell or possess or traffic in hypodermic syringes, needles, or any instrument or implement manufactured or adapted for the use of narcotic drugs by subcutaneous injection, unless such sale or possession or trafficking is authorized by the certificate of a physician issued within the period of one year. (Ord. 77-0102, passed 1-15-77)