Ventura County Municipal Code Art. 6 Sale and Display of Drug Paraphernalia to Minors

As used in this Article, the phrase "drug paraphernalia" shall include any instrument used, designed for use, or intended for use in ingesting, smoking, administering, or preparing marijuana, hashish, hashish oil, PCP, cocaine, or any controlled substance as defined by the California Health and Safety Code, and includes, but is not limited to, the following:

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

(b) Water pipes of any sort designed for use or intended for use with marijuana, hashish, hashish oil, or cocaine;

(c) Carburetion tubes, pipes and devices;

(d) Smoking and carburetion masks;

(e) Roach clips;

(f) Separation gins designed for use or intended for use in cleaning marijuana;

(g) Cocaine spoons, vials, screens and sno-seals or other paper products;

(h) Coke-cut or other chemical additives;

(i) Chamber pipes;

(j) Electric pipes;

(k) Air driven pipes;

(l) Chillums; and

(m) Scales, dial-a-grams and other measuring devices.

No person shall sell, give, deliver, or offer to sell, any drug paraphernalia to any person under the age of eighteen (18) years of age.

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 drug paraphernalia, shall allow or permit any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to be, remain in, enter or visit such room unless such minor is accompanied by one of his or her parents, or by his or her legal guardian.

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

No person shall maintain in any place of business to which the public is invited, any display for sale, or the offering to sell, of drug paraphernalia, unless such display is within a separate room or enclosure from which minors not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are excluded. At each entrance to such room or enclosure shall be a sign posted in reasonably visible and legible words stating that drug paraphernalia are being offered for sale in such room or enclosure, and minors unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, are excluded.

This ordinance shall not relate to the sale, offer to sell or display for sale of devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the County Jail for a maximum of six (6) months or by a maximum fine of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by both such fine and imprisonment.

In addition to any other remedy provided by law, the sale, or the exhibition or display for the purpose of sale, of drug paraphernalia, from which minors are not excluded as set forth in this ordinance, is hereby 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.