§ 58-225. Controlled substances and drug paraphernalia—Generally.

(a)

No person shall at any time have or possess a hypodermic syringe or needle or any other instrument or implement adapted for the use of controlled substances by subcutaneous injection or any other manner or method of introduction and which is possessed for that purpose, unless such possession is authorized by the certificate of a licensed medical doctor or osteopathic physician issued within the period of one year, provided that the prohibition contained in this section shall not apply to manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers, licensed medical technicians, technologists, nurses, hospitals, doctors, osteopathic physicians, dentists, chiropodists, veterinarians, pharmacists, and embalmers in the normal legal course of their respective business or profession, nor to persons suffering from diabetes, asthma or any other medical condition requiring self injection. No person shall at any time have or possess love roses, rose pipes, Chore Boy pads (steel wool), or single edge razor blades, in any form other than packaged by the manufacturer.

(b)

Any fraud, scheme, device, trick, deceit, misrepresentation, subterfuge or any other form on concealment for the purpose of obtaining money or any other thing of value by the sale, furnishing, supplying or giving away of any substance represented to be a controlled substance, as described in subsection (d) of this section, when the same may or may not be the same, shall be deemed a violation of this section.

(c)

No person shall loiter about, frequent or live in any building, apartment, store, automobile, boat, boathouse, airplane, or other place or any description whatsoever where controlled substances, hypodermic syringes, needles, love roses, rose pipes, Chore Boy pads (steel wool), or single edge razor blades, in any form other than packaged by the manufacturer, or other implements or empty gelatin capsules are used, sold, dispensed, furnished, given away, stored or kept illegally.

(d)

Controlled substances are deemed to be and are described as defined in the Public Health Code, Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1985 (MCL 333.1101 et seq.).

(Code 1965, § 9.102(41); Ord. No. 01-524, 1-22-01; Ord. No. 01-525, 1-22-01)