Palmdale Municipal Code Art. II Sale and Display of Narcotic and Other Paraphernalia

No owner, manager, proprietor or other person in charge of 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 18 years to be, remain in, enter or visit such room unless the minor person is accompanied by one of his or her parents, or by his or her legal guardian.

(Ord. 370 § 1(a), 1980)

A person under the age of 18 years shall not be, remain in, 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 the person is accompanied by one of his or her parents, or his or her legal guardian.

(Ord. 370 § 1(B), 1980)

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 a 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 minors, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, are excluded.

(Ord. 370 § 1(C), 1980)

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 Article, 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 and is subject to all enforcement methods, abatement procedures, other remedies, and cost recovery as prescribed in PMC Chapter 8.36 (Regulation of Property Maintenance). The City may enforce any violation of this Article by any and all means available by law, including, but not limited to, civil enforcement through such means as a restraining order and nuisance abatement action for relief such as preliminary or permanent injunction, criminal enforcement, and administrative enforcement. These remedies are intended to be cumulative and may be used in conjunction with or in lieu of each other remedy. 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 Article.

(Ord. 370 § 1(D), 1980; Ord. 1614 § 4 (Exh. I), 2023)

Every person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this article is committed, continued, or permitted, and upon conviction is punishable by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not to exceed six months or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 370 § 2, 1980)