§ 12-2. Hypodermic syringes or needles.

(a)

Short title. The provisions hereby adopted shall be known and cited as the "Ordinance providing a definition of hypodermic syringe; and prohibiting the unlawful sale, or abandonment of hypodermic syringes or needles".

(b)

Sale of hypodermic needles.

(1)

Hypodermic syringe or needles means any device used to inject intravenously, intramuscularly, or subcutaneously any substance into the body by puncturing the skin and injecting the substance into the body.

(2)

No person other than licensed pharmacists and persons working under the direction of license pharmacists may sell at retail a hypodermic syringe or needle.

(c)

Disposal of hypodermic needles. No person shall discard or abandon, in any public or private place accessible to any person, any disposable or reusable hypodermic needle or syringe without first destroying the needle and syringe; nor shall any owner, lessee or other person in control of premises accessible to any other person, knowingly permit discarded or abandoned hypodermic needles or syringes to remain on the premises in a functioning condition. For purposes of this act, a hypodermic needle or syringe shall be deemed destroyed only if the needle is broken from the hub, in the case of a needle, and the nipple of the barrel is broken from the barrel and the plunger is broken, or the plunger and barrel are melted by autoclaving, in the case of a syringe.

(Ord. No. 2007-37, §§ 1—3, 11-8-07)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 2007-37, §§ 1—3, adopted Nov. 8, 2007, was not specifically amendatory of the Code and has been included as § 12-2 at the discretion of the editor.