[Ord. No. 176, 12-6-1988]
DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
Refers to equipment, products and materials of any kind which are marketed for use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing or concealing, or injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body, any controlled substance contrary to the provisions of chapter 420b of the general statutes including, but not limited to:
(1) 
Kits marketed for use or designed for use in 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 marketed for use or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing or preparing controlled substances;
(3) 
Isomerization devices marketed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance;
(4) 
Testing equipment marketed for use or designed for use in identifying or analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances.
(5) 
Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose and lactose marketed for use or designed for use in cutting controlled substances;
(6) 
Separation gins and sifters marketed for use or designed for use in removing twigs and seeds from or in otherwise cleaning or refining, marihuana;
(7) 
Capsules and other containers marketed for use or designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances;
(8) 
Containers and other objects marketed for use or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances;
(9) 
Hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects marketed for use or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body;
(10) 
Objects marketed for use or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marihuana, cocaine, hashish, or hashish oil into the human body, such as: Metal, wooden acrylic, glass, stone, plastic or ceramic pipes with screens, permanent screens, hashish heads or punctured metal bowls; water pipes; carburetion tubes and devices, smoking and carburetion masks, roach clips: Meaning objects used to hold burning material, such as a marihuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand; miniature cocaine spoons, and cocaine vials; chamber pipes; carburetor pipes; electric pipes, air-driven pipes; chillums; bongs or ice pipes or chillers.
[Ord. No. 176, 12-6-1988]
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be fined in accordance with section 1-9.
[Ord. No. 176, 12-6-1988]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons or corporations as principal, clerk, agent or servant to sell any drug paraphernalia, as hereafter defined, without obtaining a license therefor. Such license shall be in addition to any or all other licenses held by applicant.
(b) 
Such license shall be renewable annually.
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(a) 
Application for a license or renewal thereof to sell drug paraphernalia shall be made to the chief of police of the Town of Vernon on forms available from the chief of police.
(b) 
The application shall be accompanied by affidavits by the applicant and each and every employee authorized to sell such drug paraphernalia that such person has never been convicted of a drug-related offense.
(c) 
The application shall be accompanied by a licensing fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) which shall be the annual licensing fee and shall be payable each year upon renewal.
(d) 
The applicant or license holder shall notify the chief of police whenever a principal, clerk, agent or servant who filed an affidavit pursuant to subsection (b) hereof is no longer engaged in such activity and upon a new principal, clerk agent or servant engaging in such activity shall file an affidavit for such person in conformance of subsection (b) hereof.
[Ord. No. 176, 12-6-1988]
It shall be unlawful to sell or give drug paraphernalia as hereinafter defined, in any form to any person under eighteen (18) years of age.
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Every licensee must keep a duplicate set of records of all sales of drug paraphernalia and one such set shall be sent to the police department weekly and the other set shall be open to inspection of any police officer at any time during the hours of business. Such record shall contain the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the product, the date and the time of the sale and the licensee's signature. Such records shall be retained for no less than two (2) years.
[Ord. No. 176, 12-6-1988]
The town council shall promulgate guidelines to be used in the interpretation and enforcement of this article. The guidelines may be modified from time to time as the council deems appropriate.