[HISTORY: Adopted by the Rockland County Legislature 6-5-2007 by L.L. No. 11-2007.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Drug paraphernalia — See Ch. 235.
Ephedra products — See Ch. 254.
Products containing prohormones and precursors to hormones — See Ch. 328.
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Editor's Note: This local law was vetoed by the County Executive, which veto was overridden 8-7-2007 by Res. No. 425-2007.
This chapter shall be known as "the Rockland County Methamphetamine Shield Act."
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This Legislature finds that there exists a real threat to the health, safety, and welfare of all Rockland County residents from the potential scourge of methamphetamine production and use in Rockland County and the surrounding areas.
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This Legislature further finds that the dangers from the production and use of methamphetamine are real and well-documented, leading the United States government to pass a law, known as the "Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005," limiting purchases of those materials, commonly referred to as "precursors," that may be used to manufacture methamphetamine. In addition, the act mandates that retailers selling such precursors must keep for two years a log of all purchasers of methamphetamine precursors. These logs must include identifying information about all such purchasers, who are required to show some form of legal identification prior to completing any such purchase.
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This Legislature further finds that while this law is an important tool to combat the growing threat of methamphetamine manufacture and use, it does not go far enough in that the logbook information is not gathered into one centralized point for use by law enforcement. Additionally, there is no standardized logbook form for the various establishments to use, potentially making law enforcement investigations that much more difficult.
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This chapter will mandate that all establishments keeping logbooks pursuant to the federal law will be additionally required to forward those logbooks to the Rockland County Sheriff. This chapter will also create a standardized logbook form for all Rockland establishments to use in complying with the federal and local legislation.
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The Legislature finds, therefore, that this chapter will protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare of all residents in Rockland County.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
SCHEDULED LISTED CHEMICAL PRODUCT
A product that:
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Contains ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine; and
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May be marketed or distributed lawfully in the United States under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as a nonprescription drug.
PRECURSOR MATERIALS
Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine and includes each of the salts, optical isomers, and salts of optical isomers of such chemical.
REGULATED SELLER
A retail distributor within the jurisdiction of the federal law (including a pharmacy or a mobile retail vendor), except that such term does not include an employee or agent of such distributor.
MOBILE RETAIL VENDOR
A person or entity who or which makes sales at retail from a stand that is intended to be temporary, or is capable of being moved from one location to another, whether the stand is located within or on the premises of a fixed facility (such as a kiosk at a shopping center or an airport) or whether the stand is located on unimproved real estate (such as a lot or field leased for retail purposes).
AT RETAIL
With respect to the sale or purchase of a scheduled listed chemical product, a sale or purchase for personal use, respectively.
RETAIL DISTRIBUTOR
A grocery store, general merchandise store, drug store, or other entity or person whose activities as a distributor relating to pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine products are limited almost exclusively to sales for personal use, both in number of sales and volume of sales, either directly to walk-in customers or in face-to-face transactions by direct sales.
LOGBOOK
A written or electronic list of sales as mandated by federal law, but in no event less than the following information: i) product by name; ii) quantity sold; iii) names and addresses of purchasers; iv) date and time of sales; v) relevant information from identification presented pursuant to federal law sufficient to identify the purchaser.
Every regulated seller shall, on at least a monthly basis, forward a copy of the logbook of all scheduled listed chemical product precursor materials sales at retail kept pursuant to federal law to the Rockland County Sheriff for use in ongoing investigations and for other lawful law enforcement purposes.
The first violation of § 301-4 of this chapter shall be a violation punishable by a fine of $250. A second violation within two years of the first date of violation shall be a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $500 and imprisonment of up to 90 days in jail. A third and subsequent violation within two years of the first date of violation shall be a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by between $750 and $1,000 and up to one year in jail.
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The Rockland County Sheriff or his designee is hereby directed to create a standardized logbook form that regulated sellers shall use to comply with this chapter. Such logbook shall be prepared in conjunction with the Department of General Services — MIS in order to implement the policy determination that such logbooks should be in electronic form for ease of use for law enforcement purposes.
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The Rockland County Sheriff is charged with reviewing said logbooks for law enforcement purposes.