(a) Except in safe locations approved for smoking as specifically designated by the Commissioner of Building and the Fire Chief or their authorized representatives, no person shall smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or match or use any spark or flame producing device in any theater, or in any retail store employing twenty-five (25) or more persons or able to accommodate three hundred (300) or more persons, or in any area of indoor assembly used for row seating and having a capacity of one hundred (100) or more persons.
(b) No person shall smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or match in any public bus, rapid transit car or on any public or private property where combustible materials or flammable liquids are stored, handled or displayed or where the nature of the business occupation or conditions is such as to make smoking a hazard as determined by the Fire Chief or his or her authorized representatives.
(c) No owner, agent, occupant or person in charge of any building or premises shall fail to post and maintain signs of a size and in such locations as are determined by the Fire Chief to adequately apprise persons of the prohibitions or limitations authorized by this section.
(Ord. No. 778-76. Passed 6-14-76, eff. 6-18-76)