HomeMy Public PortalAbout1992-01-07 RECREATION & PARKS COMMISSION AGENDA .� �
•r,. DATE: Janu�y 7, 1992
TO: Honorable Mayor bnd City Council
From: Gail L. Black, Director of Human Resources
, by Roy C. Bulanda, Administrative Analyst III �^
SUBJECT: NO SMOKING ORDZNANCE
OBJECTIVE
To zecommend that tha City Council adopt the attached No Smoking
Ordinanca.
FACTS
Numerous studiea hava. lound that tobacco smoka is a major
contributor to indoor air pollution; and
• Reliable studies have shown that breathinq second-hand smoke is a
• siqnificant health hazard for certain population qroups, includinq
elderly paople, individuals with cardio-vascular disease, and
individual with impaired respiratory lunction, includinq asthmatics
and those with obstructive airway diseases; and ~
Health hazards induced by breathinq second-hand smoke include lunq
cancer, respiratory infection, deczeased exercise tolerance,
decreased respiratory lunction, bronchoconstriction, and
bronchospasm; and
Non-smokera who su!!er allerqies, respiratory diseases� and other
ill eflects o! breathinq sacond-hand smoke may axperience a loss of
job productivity oz may be forced to take periodic sick leave
because of adverae reactions; and .
Smokinq is a documented cause ot fires; and
ANALYSIS
Accordinqly, it has been determined that the health,'�safety and
general welfara ot residents o!, persons employed in and persons
who frequent�.�,this City would be benetited by the alimination of
smokinq< enclosed areas. ,
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RECOMMENDATION �
Staff respactlully request that upon consideration ot said facts, �
that the City Council waiva the readinq and introduce tha ordinance �
for first readinq.
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AN OR ANCE OF THE CITY COUNCI THE
� CITY OF LY�OD� CALIFORNIA, ADDING �TION 3-18
TO THE LYNWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE PROHIBITING SMOKING
IN ALL CITY OWNED BUILDING FACZLITIES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA, DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOW3:
BECTION i. Section 3-18 is hereby added to the Lynwood
Municipal Code to read as followa:
3_18 PROHIBITING SMOKING ALL CITY OWNED HUILDING3 OR
FACILITZES.
�-18.1 DEFINITIONS: As used for tha purpose oP this section,
unless the context otherwisa clearly indicates:
"SMOKE oR SMOKiNG" shall mean the carryinq or holdinq of a
lighted pipe, ciqar, cigaratte or any other lighted smokinq
equipment or the ligiiting or emittinq or exhalinq of the smoke
of a pipe, cigar, ciqarette, or other kinds of equipment.
Smoke also means the gaseous products and particles created by
tha use of a lighted pipe, ciqar, ciqarette, or other kind of
smokinq equipment.
3_18•2 �mokinc in Citv-owne� h+���.��� � or fac{��r�pg
urohibited. -
Zt shall be unlawful for any peraon to smoke in any
building or facility owned or leased by the City or
the Lynwood Redevelopment Agency which ia used for -.
qovernmental purposes. Notwithstandinq this prohibition,
the City Manaqer may desiqnate smoking areas within such
building or structure.
3-18.3 Exemntions
Tha prohibition contained in Section 3-18.2 ahall not apply i
to the walk ways or the outside areas of buildings or
facilities owned or leased by the City or the Lynwood j
Redevelopment Agency. ,
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The City Manaqer is directad to post and prominently dispiay �
No Smoking signs at the entrance to buildinqs or facilities �
aubject to the prohibition contained in Section 3-18.2. All
such signs ehall clearly and conapiciouely recite the phrase i
"No Smokinq° and/or uae the international no smokinq symbcl, '
�-18.5 V�olation �
Any person who violatee any of the provisions oP this shall I
be quilty oP an infraction and shall be subject to tha fol- �
lowing penalties:
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1. $50.00 for tha firet oPfense;
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2. $75.00 Eor the second oflensa in the eame yearj !
3. $100.00 for tha third oPPense in the sama year, i
Section 2 aq.,o.-„t,� �� t Ig any section, subsection, �
subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of thie ordinance
or the application therao! to ny person or place, is for any reason 1
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision oP any court
or competent juriadiction, such deciaion ehall not afPect the
validity of the remaininq portions o! this ordinance or its I
application to other persone or places. The City Council hereby �
declares that it would have adopted thie ordinance, and each
section thereof, irrespectve oP the fact that any one or more
sections, subsections, or sentences be declared invalid or
unconatitutional.
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�ection 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passaqe of
this ordinance and shall cause same to be published once in the
Lynwood Press within fifteen days after its passaqe and said or
ordinance ahall become affective thirty (30) days after its
passage.
INTRODUCED this day oP , 1991.
SIGNED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THI3 DAY OF
1991. �
Louis J. Heine, Mayor
ATTEST: City of Lynwood
ANDREA HOOPER, City Clerk
of tha City of Lynwood, CA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) s8;
CITY OF LYNWOOD )
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I, ANDREA HooPER, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood,
California, do hareby cartify that tha foreqoinq ordinanca was duly
. and reqularly adopted, passed and approved by the City Council of
the City o! Lynwood, California, at a reqular meeting oP said City
Council hald at the reqular meeting place theraoP on the day
, oP , 1991 by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
EXCU::ED:
Dated this day of , l9gZ,
Andrea Hooper,City Clerk
Approved As To Form: ��
City Attorney
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