HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 16, Page 830, Ordinance Number 68-12-146ORDINANCE NO. 68-12-146
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING SALE OF TOXIC GLUE TO CERTAIN PERSONS
AND MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF TOXIC GLUE FUMES,
AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to be under the
influence of toxic glue fumes.
SECTION 2. No person shall sell, supply, or furnish, or cause to
be sold, supplied, or furnished, any toxic glue to another person who
is under the influence of toxic glue fumes or who intends to use the
toxic glue for such a purpose.
SECTION 3. No person shall attempt to breath toxic glue fumes for
the purpose of becoming under the influence of the same.
SECTION 4. Any person who sells toxic glue at retail shall require
any person who buys a large quantity of toxic glue to furnish the seller
the name, address and age of the purchaser before the sale is made,
and the person selling the same shall immediately furnish said information
to an officer of the Police Department of the City of Paducah, Kentucky.
SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person who is convicted
under any section of this ordinance or a like or similar ordinance
or statute in any other jurisdiction, to sell, furnish, supply or
possess toxic glue.
SECTION 6. In any criminal trial or proceeding in any court
involving an alleged violation of any section of this ordinance, any
information communicated to a peace officer by a confidential informant
shall be admissible on the issue of reasonable or probable cause to
make an arrest or search with or without a warrant without requiring
that the name of identity of the informant be disclosed, if the judge
is advised after hearing evidence in chambers out of the presence of
everyone byt the witness and the attorney prosecuting the case that
the information was received from a reliable informant.
SECTION 7. That if any section, paragraph or provision of this
ordinance shall be found to be inoperative, ineffective or invalid
for any cause, the deficiency or invalidity of such section,
paragraph
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or provision shall not affect any other section, paragraph or provision
hereof, it bwing the purpose and intent of this ordinance to make
each and every section, paragraph and provision hereof separable
from all other sections, paragraphs and provisions.
SECTION 8. As used in this ordinance the word "person" includes
any corporation, association, partnership, or one or more individuals.
The words "large quantity" means any sale of six (6) or more containers
of toxic glue of any size at any one sale or within a period of seven
(7) days or less. As used in this ordinance "toxic glue" means any
glue that will produce fumes which, when inhaled, will intoxicate or
impair the physical or mental functioning of a person.
SECTION 9. Any person who violates any section of this ordinance
shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than
$500.00, or my imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of Paducah,
Kentucky, for not less than ten (10) days nor more than one hundred
eighty (180) days, or both.
SECTION 10. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its adoption and publication.
Mayor
Passed by the Board of Commissioners December 10; 1968
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, December 10, 1968.
Published December /7 1968 '