Sale of contraceptive devices.
Indianapolis-Marion County Revised Code § 421-103
in effectSec. 421-103. - Sale of contraceptive devices.
(a) In promoting the public morals, health, peace and security in the city, each of the following acts and things in the city are hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful:
(1) For any person, except upon the prescription of or when delivered by a duly licensed physician, to sell or otherwise dispose of, or to permit the sale or other disposition of, any of the devices described in subsection (b) below to any person who is known by such seller to be under the age of eighteen (18) years; and any person so receiving any such devices, whenever his true age is in doubt to the seller, shall sign a statement giving his true age, name and address, which statement shall be preserved by the seller. Any false statement by any such person shall be a violation of this chapter.
(2) For any person to sell, offer for sale, give away or otherwise dispose of in any manner any kind of device or substance described in subsection (b) below, except a duly registered pharmacist or licensed physician, in which case such devices are to be sold or disposed of by them only in their respective authorized places of business, while there and therein so acting as such pharmacist or physician; provided, however, this paragraph shall not apply to wholesale druggists, jobbers or manufacturers who sell any such goods in their regular business to retail drugstores or physicians only.
(b) "Device" as used in this section shall include any kind of sex-exciting device or substance; or any contraceptive device whether of rubber or of any other material; or any other devices or articles, any of which are designed or capable of or intended to be used by persons of either sex for either the prevention of venereal disease or the prevention or hindrance of conception.
(Code 1975, § 20-119)
Source: Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Revised Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/in/indianapolis_-_marion_county/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIPUORSA_CH421PUDEOB_ARTIOFAGPUDE_S421-103SACODEFetched: 10/27/2026