(A) Smoking in any building, structure, deck area, patio, pavilion, park, or other outdoor area owned or operated by the city or a public school district, and within 15 feet of any entrance or exit to a city or public school district building is a nuisance and is hereby prohibited. This prohibition will not apply to public rights-of-way under the city’s jurisdiction, or to property outside the corporate limits.
(B) For the purposes of this section, SMOKE or SMOKING includes inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted or burning cigarette, cigar, pipe; hookah pipe, pipe weed, or other lighted tobacco product in any manner or in any form; or the use of any alternative nicotine product causing the user to exhale any smoke, vapor, or other substance other than those produced by unenhanced human exhalation.
(C) For the purposes of this section, ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCT includes any product or device not consisting of or containing tobacco that provides for the ingestion into the body of nicotine, whether by chewing, smoking, absorbing, dissolving, inhaling, snorting, sniffing, or by any other means. ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCT excludes cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, or other tobacco products as these terms are defined in Section 1 of the Prevention of Tobacco Use by Minors and Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products Act (ILCS Ch. 720, Act 675, § 1) and any product approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a nontobacco product for sale as a tobacco cessation product, as a tobacco dependence product, or for other medical purposes, and is being marketed and sold solely for that approved purpose.
(Ord. 2019-16, passed 2-25-2019) Penalty, see § 10.99