HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 79-485ORDINANCE NO. 79 -485
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TEMPLE CITY AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO RE-
QUIRE BUSINESS PROPRIETORS TO EXCLUDE MINORS FROM
ANY ROOM OR PLACE WHERE DEVICES, CONTRIVANCES,
INSTRUMENTS OR PARAPHERNALIA FOR THE SMOKING OR
INJECTION OF MARIJUANA, HASHISH, PCP, OR ANY CON-
TROLLED SUBSTANCE IS DISPLAYED OR OFFERED FOR SALE,
AND PROHIBITING THE GIFT, SALE OR DELIVERY OF SUCH
DEVICES TO MINORS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 1 of Article IV of the Temple City Municipal
Code, pertaining to unlawful conduct, is hereby amended as provided
in this ordinance.
SECTION 2. Chapter 1 of Article IV of the Temple City Municipal
Code pertaining to Unlawful Activities is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following:
4159. SALE AND DISPLAY OF NARCOTIC AND OTHER PARAPHERNALIA.
"A. Minors. No owner, manager, proprietor of 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 con-
suming 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 (18) years to be, remain in, enter or visit such
room unless such minor person is accompanied by one of his or
her parents, or by his or her legal guardian.
Bo Minors - Excluded A person under the age of
eighteen (18) years shall not be, remain in, enter 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 such person is accompanied by one of his
or her parents, or his or her legal guardian.
C. Sale and Display Rooms. 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, con-
trivances, instruments or paraphernalia for smoking or in-
jecting 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 roller 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 sign posted in reasonably
visible and legible words to the effect that narcotic para-
phernalia are being offered for sale in such a room, and minors
unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are excluded.
D, Same; Nuisance. The distribution or possession for
the purpose o sa e, exhibition, or display in any place of
business from which minors are not excluded as set forth in
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this section, 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 de-
signed and used for smoking the foregoing, 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. 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
Code."
SECTION 3. The City Council hereby declares that it would have
passed this ordinance sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph,
and section by section, and does hereby declare that the provisions
of this ordinance are severable and, if for any reason any sentence,
paragraph, or section of this ordinance shall be held invalid, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining parts of
this ordinance.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this ordinance, and to its approval by the Mayor and shall cause the
same .to :be published in the Temple City Times, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Temple
City.
APPROVED and ADOPTED this 16th day of October, 1979.
ATTEST:
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Ch�e Deputy City C1er
I, Chief Deputy City Clerk, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Ordinance, being Ordinance No. 79 -485, was introduced at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Temple City, held on the
2nd day of October, 1979, and was duly passed, approved and adopted
by said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor and attested
by the City Clerk by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen- Atkins, Gillanders, Merritt, Tyrell, Dennis
NOES: Councilmen -None
ABSENT: Councilmen -None
YL6f„z,.
Chief Deputy City Clerk
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