Torrance Municipal Code Art. 11 Display of Narcotics Paraphernalia

a) For purposes of this Article, the term narcotics paraphernalia means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, testing, analyzing, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, smoking or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance as defined in the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.

b) For purposes of this Article, the term narcotics paraphernalia includes, but is not limited to:

1. Kits used, intended for use or designated for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing or harvesting of any species of plant which is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived;

2. Kits used, intended for use or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing or preparing controlled substances;

3. Isomerization devices for use or designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance;

4. Testing equipment used, intended for use or designed for use in identifying, or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances;

5. Scales and balances used, intended for use or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances;

6. Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine, hydrochloride, mannitol and mannite used, intended for such use or designed for use in cutting controlled substances;

7. Separation gins and sifters used, intended for use or designed for use in removing twigs and seeds from, or in otherwise cleaning or refining, marijuana;

8. Containers and other objects used, intended for use or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances;

9. Hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects used, intended for use or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body;

10. Objects intended for use or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish or hashish oil into the human body, such as:

A) Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads or punctured metal bowls;

B) Water pipes;

C) Carburetion tubes and devices;

D) Smoking and carburetion masks;

E) Roach clips, meaning objects used to hold burning material, such as a marijuana cigarette that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand;

F) Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials;

G) Chamber pipes;

H) Carburetor pipes;

I) Electric pipes;

J) Air-driven pipes;

K) Chillums;

L) Bongs;

M) Ice pipes or chillers.

The owner, manager, proprietor or other person in charge of a room in any place of business that sells or displays for the purpose of sale, narcotics paraphernalia, shall not allow or permit any person under the age of eighteen (18) to be in, remain in, enter or visit such a room unless such minor person is accompanied by one of his/her parents or by his/her legal guardian.

A person under the age of eighteen (18) shall not be in, remain in, enter or visit any room in any place used for the sale or display for sale of narcotics paraphernalia unless such person is accompanied by one of his/her parents or by his/her legal guardian.

a) No person shall display for sale or offer to sell narcotics paraphernalia in any place of business to which the public is invited, except within a separate room or enclosure to which persons under the age of eighteen (18), not accompanied by his/her parents or his/her legal guardian, are excluded.

b) A sign shall be posted at each entrance to such room, in at least one hundred (100) point bold type words, to the effect that persons under the age of eighteen (18) are excluded unless accompanied by his/her parent or his/her legal guardian.

The provisions of this Article shall not apply to the lawful dispensing of devices for injecting or otherwise consuming prescription drugs as defined by the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.