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ORDINANCE NO. i_"tn4 _ - -
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF LYNWOOD, CALIF~:~RNIA, ADDING SECTION 3-18
TO THE LYNF<OOD '3UNiCrpnL CODE PROHIBITING SMOKING
IN ALL CITY OWNED BUILDING. FACILITIES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA, DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 3_18 is hereby added to the Lynwood
Municipal Code to read as follows:
~$ PROHIBITING SMOKING ALL CITY OWNED BUILDINGS OR
FACILITIES.
3-18.1 DEFINITIONS: As used for the purpose of this section,
unless the context otherwise clearly indicates:
"SMOKE OR SMOKING" shall mean the carrying or holding of a
lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette or any other lighted smoking
equipment or the lighting or emitting or exhaling of the smoke
of a pipe, cigar, cigarette, or other kinds of equipment.
Smoke also means the gaseous products and particles created by
the use of a lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, or other kind of
smoking equipment.
3-18.2 Smoking in City-owned buildings or facilities
prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke in any
building or facility owned or leased by the City or
the Lynwood Redevelopment Agency which is used for
governmental purposes. Notwithstanding this prohibition,
the City Manager or City Council may designate smoking areas
within such building or :structure.
- ie~i.r ::2u:::t ia..n3.
The prohibition contained in Section 3-18.2 shall not apply
to the walk ways or the outside areas of buildings or
facilities owned or leased by the City or the Lynwood
Redevelopment Agency.
3-18.4 Posting of Sians_
The City Manager is directed to post and prominently display
"NO Smoking" signs at the entrance to buildings or facilities
subject to the prohibition contained in Section 3-18.2. All
such signs shall clearly and conspiciously recite the phrase
"No Smoking" and/or use the international no smoking symbol.
3-18.5 Violation.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this shall
be guilty of an infraction and shall be subject to the fol-
lowing penalties:
A. $50.00 for the first offense;
B. $75.00 for the second offense in the same year;
C. $100.00 for the third offense in the same year.
Section 2 Severability If any section, subsection,
subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance
or the application thereof. to any person or place, is for any
reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of
any court or competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its
application to other persons or places. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and each
section thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections, subsections, or sentences be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
Section 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause same to be published once in the
Lynwood Press within fifteen days after its passage and said or
ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its
passage.
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INTRODUCED this 17th day of December
1991.
SIGNED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 4th DAY OF February
199.
ATTEST:
ANDREA HOOPER, City Clerk
of the City of Lynwood, CA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss:
CITY OF LYNWOOD )
uis erne, Mayor
ity f Lynwood
e
I~ ANDREA
California HOOPER~ Cit
Y adopted
the City of LYnwooeby c Passed tandlthe foregoing oTaY of LYnwood,
Council held d, California, at PProved b finance was duly
of Februar at the regular a regular the City Council of
~, 199 meeting place meeting of said Cit
by the followin thereof on the 4th Y
g vote: ~_ day
AYES CDUNCILMEMBERS BYRD
NOES: REA, RICHARDS, WELLS, HEINE
NONE
ABSENm; NDNE
EXCUSED: NONE
Dated this 4th day of Februar
~-~, 1992.
Andr~e~~~ec~'
P , City clerk
To Form:
ttorney