For the purpose of carrying out the intent of this chapter, words, phrases and terms used herein shall have their ordinary meaning unless otherwise as follows.
(A) "Amenities" shall be defined as any enclosed or partially enclosed public spaces designated for specific purposes and the areas directly adjacent to those spaces. This includes, but is not limited to, picnic shelters, ballfields, playgrounds, skate parks, parking lots and tennis, volleyball and basketball courts. Such areas may be used informally and without the presence or approval of Department staff.
(E) "Department" shall be defined as the City of Corona Community Services Department.
(F) "Director" shall be defined as the Community Services Director or his or her designee.
(G) "Electronic smoking device" means an electronic device that can be used to deliver nicotine or any other substance, including, without limitation, any component, part or accessory of such device, whether or not sold separately. "Electronic smoking device" includes, without limitation, any such device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed or sold as an electronic cigarette, an electronic cigar, an electronic cigarillo, an electronic pipe, an electronic hookah, or any other product name or descriptor.
(H) "City Manager" shall be defined as the City Manager of the City of Corona or his or her designee.
(I) "Organized group athletic event" shall be defined as a group of eight or more persons using a public park, recreational buildings/facilities or amenities for a planned or scheduled sport or athletic event, including, without limitation, practicing, conducting drills, camps, games, scrimmages and similar coordinated or structured activity. The term "organized group athletic event" shall not include any type of for-profit activity, class, program or lesson provided or led by an instructor, which is prohibited pursuant to § 12.24.030(R).
(J) "Outdoor festival" shall be defined as any music festival, dance festival, rock festival or similar musical activity at which music is provided by paid or amateur performers or by prerecorded means and which is open to the public as established in Chapter 5.30.
(K) "Public parks" shall be defined as all developed and undeveloped park spaces dedicated for public use, landscape maintenance districts, open space areas, pedestrian or bike trails or access ways, planted parkways and pathways and the area directly adjacent to those spaces that are maintained by the city.
(L) "Recreation buildings/facilities" shall be defined as any structure and the area directly adjacent to that structure that falls under the jurisdiction of the Department. This includes, but is not limited to, the Fiesta Bandshell, Historic Civic Center Theater, City Park and Auburndale pools, Civic Center Historic Community Room, Civic Center Historic Gymnasium, Senior Center, Brentwood, Victoria, River Road Center, Main Street Community Center and Auburndale Recreation Center. Such areas may only be used in the presence of or with the prior approval of the Department.
(N) "Smoke or Smoking" shall be defined as carrying or holding a lighted pipe, cigar, or cigarette, or any other lighted smoking product or equipment used to burn any tobacco products, weed, plant, or combustible substance, or the use of any electronic smoking device. Smoking includes emitting or exhaling the fumes of any pipe, cigar, cigarette, or any other lighted smoking equipment used for burning any tobacco product, weed, plant, or any other combustible substance and the emitting or exhaling of vapor or aerosol from an electronic smoking device.
(O) "Special event" shall be defined as any meeting, assembly, parade or other event open to the public and proposed to be conducted in or upon the public streets, highways or public parks of the city as established in Chapter 9.20.
(P) "Tobacco product" shall be defined as any substance containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, bidis, or any other preparation of tobacco.
(`78 Code, § 12.24.020.) (Ord. 3349 § 3, 2022; Ord. 3337 § 3 (part), 2021; Ord. 3244 § 15-17, 2016; Ord. 3160 § 2 (part), 2013; Ord. 2967 § 2, 2009; Ord. 2884 § 1, 2007; Ord. 2303 § 1 (part), 1996.)