San Luis Obispo County Municipal Code Ch. 7.30 Sale of Drug Paraphernalia

No owner, manager, proprietor, or other person in charge of any room in any place of business shall sell or permit to be sold to any person under the age of eighteen years, 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.

(Ord. 2021 § 1 (part), 1900)

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.

(Ord. 2021 § 1 (part), 1980)

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 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.

(Ord. 2021 § 1 (part), 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 from which minors 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 are excluded.

(Ord. 2021 § 1 (part), 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 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.

(Ord. 2021 § 1 (part), 1980)

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 2021 § 1 (part), 1980)