Redding Municipal Code Ch. 10.08 Limits on Retail Sales of Products Containing Ephedrine And…

Whenever in this chapter the words or phrases defined in this section are used, they shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the following definitions:

"Code" means the Redding Municipal Code.

"Count" means the number of pills, tablets, capsules, or individual units of a substance containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.

"Customer" means any person who is sold or acquires during a transaction products from any retail store.

"Day" means calendar day.

"Ephedrine" means any drug, substance, or compound that contains ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, ephedrine hydrochloride, pseudoephedrine hydrochloride, or pseudoephedrine sulfate.

"Phenylpropanolamine" means any drug, substance, or compound that contains phenylpropanolamine.

"Package" means any bottle, box, blister pack, or other container in which products containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine are sold.

"Person" means a corporation, copartnership, or association, as well as a natural person.

"Retail store" means any single geographic location of any business, company, corporation, person, employee, or associate that sells products to any customer. It does not include any wholesaler engaged in a wholesale transaction.

"Sell" means to furnish, give away, exchange, transfer, deliver, surrender, distribute, or supply, whether for monetary gain or other consideration.

"Transaction" means a purchase, sale, trade, loan, pledge, investment, gift, transfer, transmission, delivery, deposit, withdrawal, payment, exchange of currency, extension of credit, purchase or sale of any monetary instrument, or an electronic, magnetic, or manual transfer between accounts, or any other acquisition or disposition of property by whatever means effected.

"Wholesaler" means a person whose business is the selling of goods in gross to retail stores for purposes of resale.

(Ord. 2234 § 1 (part), 1998)

A. It is unlawful for any person during a single transaction to sell to a customer more than three packages of a product containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.

B. It is unlawful for any person during a single transaction to sell to a customer products containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine when the total count exceeds one hundred.

C. It is unlawful for any customer on any single day to purchase or acquire more than three packages of a product containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.

D. It is unlawful for any customer on any single day to purchase or acquire a product containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine when the total count exceeds one hundred.

(Ord. 2234 § 1 (part), 1998)

A. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter or by state law, a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in Section 1.12.010 of this code.

B. This chapter is a regulatory provision necessary for the protection of the public health, welfare, and safety.

C. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply whenever a customer is sold ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine upon the written prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist or veterinarian licensed to practice in the state of California.

D. A violation of any provision of this chapter constitutes a public nuisance.

(Ord. 2234 § 1 (part), 1998)