(a) No person, by reason of careless, willful or wanton conduct in smoking, or in the use of lighters or matches for smoking, shall set fire to any bedding, carpet, curtain, drapes, furniture, household equipment or other goods or chattels, or to any building.
(b) The term “careless conduct in smoking” as used herein includes any of the following acts of commission or omission: permitting a spark or sparks from a lighted cigar, cigarette or pipe to fall upon or into anything flammable; the placing of any lighted smoking material on or about or in close proximity to any flammable article or articles; falling asleep with lighted smoking material of any kind at hand; throwing lighted smoking material out of a window or into an elevator pit or elsewhere than in a proper receptacle therefor; dropping a lighted cigarette or cigar or part thereof into a mail chute in any building; failure to extinguish the fire of a match or any kind of lighter device after the use of the same; failure to destroy the lighted part of a cigar or cigarette when disposing of same; failure to destroy the burning smidgen or smidgens of tobacco from a pipe.
(c) A plainly printed notice of the provisions of subsection (a) and (b) hereof shall be posted in a conspicuous place in every sleeping room of every motel, hotel, rooming house, lodging house, tourist home, tourist court or other place renting rooms for the accommodation of the public.
(Ord. 95-2000. Passed 6-5-00.)