A. This chapter shall be known as "Secondhand Smoke Control."
B. The purposes of this chapter are to:
1. Protect the public health, safety and general welfare by eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke in public places, places of employment, and places where childcare is offered.
2. Acknowledge the need of nonsmokers, especially children, to breathe smoke-free air, and recognize the danger to public health that secondhand smoke causes.
3. Recognize that the need to breathe air free of the disease-causing toxins in secondhand smoke should have priority over the desire and convenience of smoking in public places, places of employment, and places where childcare is offered.
4. Recognize the right and benefit to municipal residents and visitors to be free from unwelcome secondhand smoke in public places and places of employment.
(Ord. 15-02 § 2 (part), 2014)