Modesto |
Code of Ordinances |
Title 4. PUBLIC WELFARE, SAFETY AND HEALTH |
Chapter 7. MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS |
Article 5. Sale of Drug Paraphernalia |
§ 4-7.501. Drug Paraphernalia Defined.
As used in this article, the term "drug paraphernalia" means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are intended for use or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance, as defined in the Health and Safety Code of the State of California. "Drug paraphernalia" includes but is not limited to all of the following:
(1)
Kits intended for use or designed for use in the 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 intended for use or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing or preparing controlled substances.
(3)
Isomerization devices intended for use or designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance.
(4)
Testing equipment intended for use or designed for use in identifying, or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances.
(5)
Scales and balances intended for use or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances.
(6)
Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, minnite, dextrose, and lactose, intended for use or designed for use in cutting controlled substances.
(7)
Separation gins and sifters intended for use or designed for use in removing twigs and seeds from, or in otherwise cleaning or refining, marijuana or any controlled substance.
(8)
Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons and mixing devices intended for use or designed for use in compounding controlled substances.
(9)
Capsules, balloons, envelopes and other containers intended for use or designed for use in packaging quantities of controlled substances.
(10)
Containers and other objects intended for use or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances.
(11)
Hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects intended for use or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body.
(12)
Objects intended for use or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish or hashish oil or any controlled substance 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)
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, such objects being commonly known and referred to as "roach clips."
(f)
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.
(Added by Ord. 2012-C.S., § 1, effective 3-12-81)