§ 8.301. General.

(a)

The Council finds and declares it is necessary for the public health and welfare to prohibit the possession, display, offer for sale, sale, delivery, use or advertisement of drug paraphernalia for any purpose other than that specifically authorized by State or Federal law.

(b)

This subtitle is not applicable to a person who is registered or who is in full compliance with section 281 of article 27, Annotated Code of Maryland.

(c)

It is the legislative intent of the Council that every section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, and word of this subtitle are to be liberally construed; that the provisions of this subtitle are declared to be severable; and, in the event that any section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this subtitle is to be declared invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the remaining words, phrases, clauses, sentences, subparagraphs, paragraphs, subsections, or sections of this subtitle, since the same would have been enacted without the incorporation in this subtitle of any such invalid or unconstitutional word, phrase, clause, sentence, subparagraph, paragraph, subsection, or section.

(C.B. 1, 1980)