Monterey Park Municipal Code Ch. 9.93 Sale and Display of Narcotic and Other Paraphernalia

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 of California, 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 years to be, remain in, enter or visit such room unless such minor person is accompanied by one of his or her parents, or by his or her legal guardian.

(Ord. 1547 § 1, 1981)

A person under the age of eighteen 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 or her parents or his or her legal guardian.

(Ord. 1547 § 1, 1981)

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 for the smoking of the foregoing, unless within a separate room or enclosure to which persons under the age of eighteen years not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are excluded. Each entrance to such a room shall be posted with a sign in reasonably visible and legible words to the effect that narcotic paraphernalia are being offered for sale in such a room, and persons under the age of eighteen years, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, are excluded.

(Ord. 1547 § 1, 1981)

The distribution or possession for the purpose of sale, exhibition, or display in any place of business from which persons under the age of eighteen years are not excluded as set forth in this chapter, and where devices, contrivances, instruments or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP or any controlled substance, 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 declared to be a public nuisance, and may be abated pursuant to the provisions of Section 731 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the state of California. This remedy is in addition to any other remedy provided by law, including the penalty provisions applicable for violation of the terms and provisions of this code.

(Ord. 1547 § 1, 1981)