(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, recognize the danger to public health which 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; and
(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. 2009-07, passed 5-12-09)