A. No person shall be in possession of a burning tobacco or tobacco-related product, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipes or similar devices in or upon any public park, playground or trail in the city.
B. No person shall dispose of lighted or unlighted cigarettes or cigars, or cigarette or cigar butts. Or similar devices, or any other tobacco-related waste (including, but not limited to.. chewing tobacco) in or upon any public park, playground or trail in the city, except in a receptacle designated for such disposal.
C. No person shall intimidate, threaten any reprisal, or effect any reprisal, for the purpose of retaliating against another person who seeks to obtain compliance with this section.
D. For the purposes of this section and any resolutions adopted to effect the purposes of this section, ..smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted cigarette. cigar, pipe. plant, weed or any other lighted smoking product or equipment used to burn any tobacco product, weed, plant or another combustible substance (a “similar device”). the lighting of a cigarette, cigar, pipe or similar device, and the exhaling of gaseous products and particles created by the use Of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, or similar device.
E. Violations of this section shall constitute an infraction unless prosecuted pursuant
to an administrative citation procedure established by the city. (Ord. 256 § 1, 2006)