[Ord. No. 5081, 3-6-2023]
A. 
It is unlawful for any person to possess or have under his/her control marijuana as follows:
1. 
Possess more than three (3) ounces of dried marijuana or the equivalent of marijuana-infused products;
2. 
Operate or be in physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence (more than a positive test required);
3. 
Smoking or vaping marijuana in a vehicle while operated;
4. 
Smoke, vape or consume marijuana in public place;
5. 
Growing marijuana in an unlocked facility or growing more plants than allowed by State law;
6. 
Persons under the age of twenty-one (21) years;
7. 
Possess, smoke or vape marijuana or marijuana-infused products at a school, bus or correction facility;
8. 
Smoke or vape marijuana at a location where smoking tobacco prohibited; and
9. 
Growing more plants than allowed by State law or exceeding weight limits and storage, or lack of "card," or otherwise prohibited by State law.
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Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
[Ord. No. 5212, 11-3-2025]
A. 
Definitions. For purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
CANNABIS LOUNGE OR CONSUMPTION FACILITY
Any business, establishment, or area open to the public, whether or not a fee is charged, where marijuana, marijuana-infused products, or cannabis paraphernalia are consumed, smoked, vaporized, or ingested on the premises.
MARIJUANA
Shall have the same meaning as set forth in Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution.
B. 
Prohibition of Cannabis Lounges.
1. 
It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to operate, maintain, or permit the operation of a cannabis lounge, marijuana consumption facility, or any similar establishment within the City limits of Dexter, Missouri.
2. 
No business license shall be issued for any activity that includes on-site consumption of marijuana or marijuana products.
3. 
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit lawful possession or private consumption of marijuana in compliance with Missouri law.
C. 
Penalties. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any provision of this Section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both, for each offense. Each day such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. No. 5216, 12-1-2025]
A. 
Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
7-HYDROXYMITRAGYNINE
Means the psychoactive indole alkaloid with the molecular formula C23H30N205 derived from or related to the plant Mitragyna speciosa.
7-OH
Means the substance commonly known as 7-Hydroxymitragynine, including any form, solution, compound, extract, or mixture containing it.
OTHER NAMES/NICKNAMES
"7-Hydroxymitragynine" and "7-OH" also include, but are not limited to, any product labeled or marketed as:
a. 
7-Hydroxy Mitragynine.
b. 
7-OHO.
c. 
7-Hydroxy Kratom.
d. 
Super-Enhanced Kratom/Enhanced Kratom Extract.
e. 
Kratom Alkaloid Extract (when containing 7-OH).
f. 
Mitragynine Derivative (7-OH).
g. 
Kratom Opioid Alkaloid.
h. 
"Potentiated Kratom" (if containing 7-OH).
SELL or SALE
Means any transfer, exchange, gift, or provision of a product for monetary or non-monetary consideration.
PERSON
Includes any individual, retail business, corporation, partnership, association, or commercial entity.
B. 
Prohibition.
1. 
It shall be unlawful for any person or business within the City of Dexter to sell, offer for sale, give, distribute, or otherwise provide any product containing 7-Hydroxymitragynine, 7-OH, or any derivative substance listed in Subsection (A).
2. 
No store or commercial establishment may possess 7-Hydroxymitragynine, 7-OH, or any derivative substance of a 7-OH product for the purpose of sale or distribution.
C. 
Penalties.
1. 
Any violation of this Section constitutes a municipal offense.
2. 
Upon conviction, a violator shall be subject to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both.
3. 
Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense.
D. 
Enforcement and Seizure. The Dexter Police Department and authorized City officials shall enforce this Section. Products found in violation may be seized and destroyed in accordance with law.
[Ord. No. 4726 §1, 8-19-2013]
A. 
It is unlawful for any person to possess an imitation controlled substance as defined in Chapter 195 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri.
B. 
It is the intention of the City of Dexter that as Chapter 195 RSMo., is amended listing additional prohibited substances, that they shall be incorporated by reference.
C. 
Any person who is convicted of violation of this Section shall be up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) and/or up to ninety (90) days in jail for each such violation.
A. 
No person shall deliver in any single over-the-counter sale more than:
1. 
Two (2) packages or any number of packages that contain a combined total of no more than six (6) grams, of any drug containing a sole active ingredient of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or any of their salts, optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers; or
2. 
Three (3) packages of any combination drug containing, as one of its active ingredients, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or any of their salts, optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers, or any number of packages of said combination drug that contain a combined total of no more than nine (9) grams of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or any of their salts, optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers.
B. 
All packages of any drug having a sole active ingredient of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or any of their salts, optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers, shall be displayed and offered for sale only behind a checkout counter where the public is not permitted, or within ten (10) feet and an unobstructed view of an attended checkout counter. This Subsection shall not apply to any retailer utilizing an electronic anti-theft system that utilizes a product tag and detection alarm which specifically prevents the theft of such drugs from the place of business where such drugs are sold.
C. 
This Section shall supersede any municipal ordinances or regulations passed on or after December 23, 2002, to the extent that such ordinances or regulations are more restrictive than the provisions of this Section. This Section shall not apply to any product labeled pursuant to Federal regulation for use only in children under twelve (12) years of age or to any products that the State Department of Health and Senior Services, upon application of a manufacturer, exempts by rule from this Section because the product has been formulated in such a way as to effectively prevent the conversion of the active ingredient into methamphetamine or its salts or precursors or to the sale of any animal feed products containing ephedrine or any naturally occurring or herbal ephedra or extract of ephedra.
D. 
Any person who is considered the general owner or operator of the outlet where ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine products are available for sale who violates Subsection (A) of this Section shall not be penalized pursuant to this Section if such person documents that an employee training program was in place to provide the employee with information on the State and Federal regulations regarding ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.
A. 
The retail sale of methamphetamine precursor drugs shall be limited to:
1. 
Sales in packages containing not more than a total of three (3) grams of one (1) or more methamphetamine precursor drugs calculated in terms of ephedrine base, pseudoephedrine base and phenylpropanolamine base; and
2. 
For non-liquid products, sales in blister packs, each blister containing not more than two (2) dosage units, or where the use of blister packs is technically infeasible, sales in unit dose packets or pouches.
B. 
Any person holding a retail sales license pursuant to Chapter 144, RSMo., who knowingly violates Subsection (A) of this Section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
C. 
Any person who is considered the general owner or operator of the outlet where ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine products are available for sale who violates Subsection (A) of this Section shall not be penalized pursuant to this Section if such person documents that an employee training program was in place to provide the employee with information on the State and Federal regulations regarding ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.
[Ord. No. 4846, 4-3-2017]
A. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following words and/or phrases shall have the following meanings as set forth herein.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
A drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V as set out in Chapter 195 of the Revised Missouri Statues of Missouri.
DEPARTMENT or HEALTH DEPARTMENT
The St. Louis County Department of Public Health.
DIRECTOR
The Director of the Stoddard County Health Department, or the person or persons duly designated by the Director to carry out the duties of the Director specified in this Section.
DISPENSER
A person who delivers a Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance to a patient. However, the term does not include:
a. 
A hospital as defined in Section 197.020 of the Revised Statues of Missouri that distributes such substances for the purpose of inpatient care or dispenses prescriptions for controlled substances at the time of discharge from such facility;
b. 
A practitioner or other authorized person who administers such a substance; or
c. 
A wholesale distributor of a Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance.
PATIENT
A person who is the ultimate user of a drug for whom a prescription is issued or for whom a drug is dispensed, not including a hospice patient enrolled in a Medicare certified hospice program who has controlled substances dispensed to him or her by such hospice program.
SCHEDULE II, III, OR IV CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
A controlled substance listed in Schedules II, III, or IV as set out in Chapter 195 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri as set out in the Controlled Substances Act, 21 USC Section 812.
B. 
The Director shall establish and maintain a prescription drug monitoring program for monitoring the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances by professionals licensed to prescribe or dispense such controlled substances. The purpose of a prescription drug monitoring program is to assist healthcare providers improve treatment and health outcomes of individuals in the community, and assist in the identification and prevention of prescription drug misuse and abuse.
C. 
The Director is authorized to establish regulations for the prescription drug monitoring program. A regulation adopted pursuant to this Section shall be available in the Director's office. The program established and maintained by the Director shall operate so as to be consistent with Federal and State laws concerning the regulation of narcotics and with privacy of lawful users of narcotics.
D. 
Within seven (7) business days of having dispensed a Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance, the Dispenser of same shall submit to the Department by electronic means, and in a format acceptable to the Director, information regarding such dispensing. The information submitted for each dispensing shall at minimum include:
1. 
The pharmacy's Drug Enforcement (DEA) number;
2. 
The date of dispensation;
3. 
If dispensed via a prescription:
a. 
The prescription number or other unique identifier;
b. 
Whether the prescription is new or a refill;
c. 
The prescriber's DEA or National Provider Identifier (NPI) number;
d. 
The National Drug Code (NDC) of the drug dispensed;
e. 
The quantity and dosage of the drug; and
f. 
An identifier for the patient to whom the drug was dispensed, including but not limited to any one (1) of the following: a driver's license number, the patient's government-issued identification number; the patient's insurance cardholder identification number; or the patient's name, address, and date of birth.
E. 
It shall be unlawful for a dispenser to knowingly fail to comply with the requirements of this Section.
F. 
It shall be unlawful for a dispenser to knowingly fail to comply with a prescription drug monitoring program regulation established by the Director.
G. 
It shall be unlawful for a dispenser to knowingly provide false information to the prescription drug monitoring program.
H. 
The requirements of this Section shall not apply to controlled substances to be administered to an animal which are dispensed pursuant to a prescription issued by a licensed veterinarian.
It is unlawful for any person to use, or to possess with intent to use, drug paraphernalia as defined by Section 195.010, RSMo., to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance as defined by Section 195.010, RSMo., or an imitation controlled substance as defined by Section 195.010, RSMo., in violation of Sections 195.005 to 195.425, RSMo.
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Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
[Ord. No. 4600 §1, 4-19-2010]
A. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following words and/or phrases shall have the following meanings as set forth herein.
EPHEDRINE
All forms of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, ephedrine hydrochloride, pseudoephedrine hydrochloride, phenylpropanolamine and all other combinations of these chemicals.
EPHEDRINE PRODUCT
Any product that contains ephedrine, its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers, as its sole active ingredient or in combination with less than therapeutically significant qualities of other active ingredients.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability company, firm, association or other entity selling an ephedrine product to customers.
SELL
To knowingly furnish, give away, exchange, transfer, deliver, surrender or supply, whether for monetary gain or not.
PACKAGE
Any number of pills, tablets, capsules, caplets or individual units of a substance held within a container intended for sale.
B. 
Restrictions On Public Access To Ephedrine Products. It shall be illegal to sell, deliver, or distribute ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, their salts, their optical isomers or salts of their optical isomers without a valid prescription from a physician or other healthcare professional licensed by the State of Missouri to write prescriptions and filled by a Missouri-licensed pharmacist.
C. 
Exception. The prohibition contained in Subsection (B) shall not apply to the sale of animal feed containing ephedrine or dietary supplement products containing natural occurring or herbal Ephedra and extract of Ephedra.
D. 
Reporting Theft Of Ephedrine Products.
1. 
Any person who sells ephedrine products and who discovers a theft, disappearance or other loss of an ephedrine product shall report the theft, disappearance or loss, in writing, to the Dexter Police Department within twenty-four (24) hours of such a discovery.
2. 
Any person who sells ephedrine products shall report to the Dexter Police Department any difference between the quantity of ephedrine products shipped and the quantity of ephedrine products received within twenty-four (24) hours of discovery.
E. 
Penalty And Injunctive Relief.
1. 
Each violation of this Section shall be considered a separate offense.
2. 
The City Administrator may institute an action for injunctive relief to enforce the provisions of this Section.
3. 
Every act or omission constituting a violation of any of the provisions of this Section by any agent or employee of any person shall be deemed and held to be the act of such person, and said person shall be punishable in the same manner as if said act or omission had been done or omitted by him/her or it personally, provided such an act or omission was with in the scope of employment or the scope of authority of such agent or employee.
No person shall intentionally smell or inhale the fumes of any solvent, particularly toluol, or induce any other person to do so for the purpose of causing a condition of, or inducing symptoms of, intoxication, elation, euphoria, dizziness, excitement, irrational behavior, exhilaration, paralysis, stupefaction, or dulling of senses or nervous system, or for the purpose of, in any manner, changing, distorting or disturbing the audio, visual or mental processes; except that this Section shall not apply to the inhalation of any anesthesia for medical or dental purposes.
A. 
No person shall intentionally or willfully induce the symptoms of intoxication, elation, euphoria, dizziness, excitement, irrational behavior, exhilaration, paralysis, stupefaction, or dulling of the senses or nervous system, distortion of audio, visual or mental processes by the use of any solvent, particularly toluol.
B. 
No person shall intentionally possess any solvent, particularly toluol, for the purpose of using it in the manner prohibited by Section 210.480 and this Section.
[CC 1974 §75.110; Ord. No. 2925 §§1 — 2, 9-6-1977]
A. 
A person who appears to be incapacitated or intoxicated in public may be taken by a Police Officer to the person's residence, to any available treatment service, or to any other appropriate local facility, which may if necessary include a jail, for custody not to exceed twelve (12) hours.
B. 
A person commits the offense of public use of an intoxicating substance when he/she shall drink or otherwise consume any alcoholic beverage, intoxicating liquor or use any controlled substance or narcotic drug in any street, public park or other public place.
[Ord. No. 4352 §1, 8-1-2005]
A. 
No person, except a parent or guardian, shall procure for, sell, give or otherwise supply alcohol to a minor.
B. 
No owner, occupant or other person or legal entity with a lawful right to the use and enjoyment of any real or personal property shall knowingly allow a minor to drink or knowingly fail to stop a minor from drinking on such property, unless the person is the minor's parent or guardian.
[Ord. No. 3659 §1(75.235), 8-2-1993]
A person commits the crime of distributing or manufacturing of a controlled substance in or near schools if a person distributes, possesses with intent to distribute or manufactures a controlled substance in or on or within one thousand (1,000) feet of the real property comprising a public or private elementary, vocational or secondary school.