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Title 7 — PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE

Los Altos Municipal Code Ch. 7.08 Drug Paraphernalia

Los Altos Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · Los Altos

Cite as: Los Altos Municipal Code Chapter 7.08 · Text as of 2026-10-03

7.08.010 - Sales and display rooms—Responsibility of owners and persons in charge.

No owner, manager, proprietor, or other person in charge of any room in any place of business, selling or displaying for the purpose of sale 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, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, as well as roach clips and cigarette papers and rollers designed for the smoking of the foregoing, shall allow or permit any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to be, remain in, enter, or visit such room, unless such minor is accompanied by one of his parents or by his legal guardian.

(Prior code § 6-3.01)

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7.08.020 - Sales and display rooms—Exclusion of minors.

A person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall not be, remain in, enter, or visit any room in any place used for the sale or displaying for sale devices, contrivances, instruments, or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, including roach clips and cigarette papers and rollers designed and used for smoking the foregoing, unless such person is accompanied by one of his parents or his legal guardian.

(Prior code § 6-3.02)

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7.08.030 - Sales and display rooms—Signs.

A person shall not maintain in any place of business to which the public is invited the display for sale, or the offering to sell, of devices, contrivances, instruments, or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, including roach clips and cigarette papers and rollers designed and used for smoking the foregoing, unless within a separate room or enclosure to which minors not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are excluded. Each entrance to such room shall be signposted in reasonably visible and legible words to the effect that narcotic paraphernalia are being offered for sale in such a room, and that minors, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, are excluded.

(Prior code § 6-3.03)

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7.08.040 - Sales and display rooms—Nuisances.

The distribution or possession for the purpose of sale, exhibition, or display in any place of business from which minors are not excluded as set forth in this section, and where devices, contrivances, instruments, or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, other than other than prescription drugs or devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, including roach clips and cigarette papers and rollers designed and used for smoking the foregoing, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and may he abated pursuant to the provisions of Section 731 of the Code of Civil Procedure of

the state. Such remedy shall be in addition to any other remedy provided by law, including the penalty provisions applicable for violations of the terms and provisions of this code.

(Prior code 6-3.04)

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