8.24.010 Purpose and findings.
8.24.020 Definitions.
8.24.030 Regulation of smoking in city-owned facilities.
8.24.040 Prohibition of smoking in enclosed places.
8.24.050 Regulation of smoking in places of employment.
8.24.060 Smoking--optional areas.
8.24.070 Posting requirement.
8.24.080 Administration and implementation.
8.24.090 Penalties.
8.24.100 Non-retaliation.
8.24.110 Other applicable laws.
8.24.120 Severability.
8.24.130 Other agency cooperation.
The City Council of the City of Gridley finds that:
A. Numerous studies have found that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to indoor air pollution; and
B. Reliable studies have shown that breathing sidestream or secondhand smoke is a significant health hazard for certain population groups, including elderly people, individuals with cardiovascular disease, and individuals with impaired respiratory function, including asthmatics and those with obstructive airway disease; and
C. Health hazards induced by breathing sidestream or secondhand smoke include lung cancer, respiratory infection, decreased exercise tolerance, decreased respiratory function, bronchoconstriction, and bronchospasm; and
D. Nonsmokers with allergies, respiratory diseases and those who suffer other ill effects of breathing sidestream or secondhand smoke may experience a loss of job productivity or may be forced to take periodic sick leave because of adverse reactions to same; and
E. The smoking of tobacco, or any other weed or plants, is a proven danger to health. Accordingly, it has been determined that the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of, persons employed in, and persons who frequent this city would be benefitted by the regulation of smoking in enclosed places, including places of employment.
(Ord. 563, 1990).
The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall be construed as set out in this section, unless it is apparent from the context that they have a different meaning:
A. "Bar" means an area which is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages and in which the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.
B. "Employee" means any person who is employed by any employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit.
C. "Employer" means any person, partnership, corporation, including municipal corporation, who employs the services of more than four persons.
D. "Enclosed" means closed in by roof and four walls with appropriate openings of ingress and egress.
E. "Place of Employment" means any enclosed area under the control of a public or private employer which employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including rooms, and employee cafeterias. A private residence is not a place of employment, unless said residence is used as a child care or a health care facility.
F. "Private function" means any function to which the general public is not invited.
G. "Smoking" means the carrying or holding of a lighted pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind, or any other lighted smoking equipment or the lighting or emitting or exhaling the smoke of a pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind.
(Ord.1 563, 1990).
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