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Ind. Code § 35-48-4-8.3

Possession of paraphernalia

Applied in 49 court decisions — leading case State v. Glass (2002)

Most recently applied in Brock-Miller v. United States (April 2018)

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.115, SEC.4

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

Sec. 8.3. (a) This section does not apply to:

(1) a rolling paper; or

(2) an item marketed to detect the presence of a drug or controlled substance, including field test kits and test strips.

(b) A person who knowingly or intentionally possesses an instrument, a device, or another object that the person intends to use for:

(1) introducing into the person's body a controlled substance;

(2) testing the strength, effectiveness, or purity of a controlled substance; or

(3) enhancing the effect of a controlled substance;

commits a Class C misdemeanor. However, the offense is a Class A misdemeanor if the person has a prior unrelated judgment or conviction under this section.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.