Ordinance No. 584

 

ORDINANCE NO. 584.1

 

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE REQUIRING BUSINESS OPERATORS TO EXCLUDE MINORS FROM ANY ROOM WHERE PARAPHERNALIA DESIGNED FOR USE IN SMOKING OR INJECTION OF MARIJUANA, HASHISH, PCP, OR ANY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IS DISPLAYED OR OFFERED FOR SALE

 

The Board of Supervisors of the County of Riverside, State of California, do ordain as follows:

 

Section 1.  MINORS.  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 device, contrivance, instrument or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting, or consuming 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.

 

Section 2.  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.

 

Section 3.  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, 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 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 paraphernalia are being offered for sale in such a room, and minors unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are excluded.

 

Section 4.  SAME; NUISANCE.  The distribution or possession for the purpose of sale, exhibition, or display in any place of business from which minors are not excluded as set forth in this ordinance,  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 designed 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 ordinance.

 

Section 5.  The Board of Supervisors 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 the ordinance.

 

Section 6.  AREA OF APPLICABILITY.  The provisions of this ordinance are applicable throughout the unincorporated territory of the County of Riverside.

 

Section 7.  PENALTIES.  It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this ordinance.  Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of an infraction or misdemeanor as hereinafter specified.  Such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted.

Any person so convicted shall be (1) guilty of an infraction offense and punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) for a first violation; (2) guilty of an infraction offense and punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00) for a second violation.  The third and any additional violations shall constitute a misdemeanor offense and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or six (6) months in jail, or both.  Notwithstanding the above, a first offense may be charged and prosecuted as a misdemeanor.  Payment of any penalty herein shall not relieve a person from the responsibility for correcting the violation.

 

 

 

 

ADOPTED:         584          02/24/81      (Eff.:  3/26/81)

                         584.1                         (Eff.:  06/1/89)

                         (798)        10/26/99      (Repealed - Eff.: 11/25/1999)