The following recitals are incorporated into this chapter.
(A) The County Board finds that smoking is dangerous to human beings and a hazard to public health and welfare;
(B) The Smoke Free Illinois Act (410 ILCS 82/65) authorizes any non-home rule county to regulate smoking in public places in the unincorporated territory of the county; and
(C) The County Board enacts this chapter known as the “Smoke-Free Environment Ordinance of the County of Lake”, herein referred to as “this chapter”, to regulate smoking in public places within unincorporated Lake County.
(1977 Code, § 1:4-5A) (Ord. passed 5-8-2007; Ord. 23-1563, passed 11-14-2023)