(a) For the purposes of this section, “smoking” (or “smoke”) is defined as the inhalation or exhalation of smoke from any lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or other smoking equipment and/or the carrying or holding or otherwise possessing any such lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or other smoking equipment.
(b) All City-owned buildings and other structures, including, but not limited to City Hall, the Police Department, the Public Works Building, water division substations and Fire Department facilities, and all buildings and structures leased by the City for municipal purposes, are hereby designated as non-smoking areas and no person shall smoke within any such area.
(c) The City Manager shall cause conspicuous signs to be posted at the entrance/exit points of each City owned or leased building, and at public gathering places and other areas within such buildings as appropriate, substantially reading as follows:
SMOKING IS PROHIBITED BY CITY CODE
OF ORDINANCES IN THIS BUILDING
(d) Any member of Council, the City Manager, City Magistrate and any full or part- time employee of the City may request persons in violation of this section to refrain from smoking. In the event that such individual shall not immediately thereafter extinguish his/her smoking materials and refrain from smoking, the person may be removed from the building by City police, who may issue a citation for violation of this section.
(e) Any person who smokes in violation of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(f) The City Manager is hereby directed to institute such rules and regulations as are administratively required to vigorously enforce this section and to provide administratively for its extension to the designation of all City-owned motor vehicles as no-smoking areas.
(Ord. 1993-30. Passed 4-27-93.)