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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 756CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES 590-40th AVENUE N.E, 788-9221 · COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA 55421 ORDINANCE NO. 756 BEING AN 0RD[NANCE RELATING TO THE POSSE~ION, SALE, DISTRIBUTION, ADHINISTRAT[0N, DISPENSATION, FURNISHING, USE, AND PRESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN DRUGS, THE CITY OF COLUHBIA HEIGHTS DOES ORDAIN: Section 't. No person shall possess, sell, distribute, administer, dispense, furnish, use, or prescribe any cocaine or opium or any of their derivatives, or any cannabas indica or cannibas sativa or marijuana, or any of their derivatives (hereinafter called '~drugs") except as provided in Section 2. Section 2. Any manufacurer, wholesaler, apothecary, physician, dentist, veterinarian, pub]ic or private hospital, sanitorium or institution maintained or conducted in whole or in part for the treatment of disability or disease or inebriety or drug addTction, may purchase, receive, possess, sell, distribute, prescribe, administer or dispense such drugs provided he shall have complied with all the provisions and requirements of the Act of Congress of December 17, 1914, known as the Harrison Narcotic Law, as the same exists and may be amended. Section 3. No person except dealers in surgical instruments, apothecaries, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, nurses, attendants and interns of hospitals, sanitoriums or any other institution in which persons are treated for disability or disease, shall at any time have or possess any hypodermic syringe or needle or any instrument or implement adapted for the use of cocaine or narcotic drugs by subcutaneous injections and which is possessed for that purpose, unless such possession be authorized by the certificate of a physician issued within a period of one year prior to any time of such possession. Section No person shall use, possess or have under his control for use any stem, bowl, lamp, yen hock or other opium-~moking paraphernalia or accessories used for the smoking or inhalation of opium. Section 5. Section 6. Section 7. Section 8. Section 9. The provisions of Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall not apply to common carriers or warehousemen or their employees engaged in the lawful distribution or storage of the drugs and materials mentioned in said sections, or to public officers or employees while engaged i.n the performance of their official duties, or to the temporary incidental possession thereof by employees or agents of persons lawfully entitled to such possession. Any possession, sale, distribution, prescription, administration, dispensation or use of such drugs, injection implements, or opium-smoking paraphernalia contrary to the provisions of this chapter is hereby declared to be dangerous to the public health and a menace to the public welfare. No person shall fradulently obtain any such drugs by any deceit, misrepresentation, subterfuge or concealment of material fact or the use of a false name or address in order ~ obtain treatment in the course of which such drugs may be prescribed. Any person violating the terms of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined a sum not to exceed $300.00 or shall be imprisonment for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days or both. This ordinance shall be in full force and effe ct thirty (30) days after date of publication. First reading: April 12, 1971 Second reading: April 26, 1971 Offered by: Land Seconded by: Logacz Roll Call: All Ayes Se~cretary to the Council / Bruce G. Nawrocki, Mayor