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Weapons and hazardous materials
Disaster Preparedness And Response (Shelter) By-Laws, r. 5 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) No person may bring any weapon or hazardous material or any other article likely to cause injury into the shelter except with the prior approval of a shelter officer or the shelter manager.
(2) The shelter manager may require a person who has brought a weapon or hazardous material or other article likely to cause injury into the shelter to remove the same from the shelter notwithstanding that the weapon or hazardous material was brought into the shelter with approval of the shelter manager or a shelter officer.
(3) Where a person admitted or seeking admission to the shelter desires, for the purpose of treatment of an illness or other physical condition of that person or of another person for whom the person admitted or seeking admission is responsible, to bring into the shelter a syringe or other instrument capable of being used as a weapon or a prescribed drug which may have hazardous characteristics or another article likely to cause injury, the person may bring the instrument or drug or other article into the shelter,
but must comply with any requirements of a shelter manager or shelter officer:
(a) that the instrument or drug be placed by that person in the custody of the shelter manager or shelter officer when that person is not using that instrument or drug for such treatment; or Disaster Preparedness and Response [CAP. 145 13
(b) where another person with medical, nursing or other similar qualifications is available, that the instrument or drug should be placed by the person admitted or seeking admission in the custody of the shelter manager or shelter officer or such qualified person.
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