Bill Text: AZ HB2782 | 2012 | Fiftieth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Salvia divinorum; unlawful acts [Track Bill]

Status: 2012-02-09 - Referred to House JUD Committee [HB2782 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2012-HB2782-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: salvia divinorum; unlawful acts

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fiftieth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2012

 

 

HB 2782

 

Introduced by

Representatives Meyer, Farley, Gallego, Tovar, Wheeler

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 13, chapter 34, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 13-3423; relating to drug offenses.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 13, chapter 34, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-3423, to read:

START_STATUTE13-3423.  Unlawful selling, dispensing, distributing, furnishing, administering or giving salvia divinorum; classification; definition

A.  It is unlawful for a person to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer or give or offer to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer or give salvia divinorum to a person who is under twenty-one years of age.

B.  It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the person reasonably relied on fraudulent proof of age presented by the person who is under twenty-one years of age.

C.  A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

D.  For the purposes of this section, "salvia divinorum" means the herb salvia divinorum, salvinorin A or Divinorin A or any substance or material that contains salvia divinorum, salvinorin A or Divinorin A. END_STATUTE