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Costa Mesa, California, Code of Ordinances >> TITLE 8 - HEALTH AND SANITATION >> CHAPTER V.
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CHAPTER V. - SMOKING IN PUBLIC FACILITIES [30]
Sec. 8-131. - Purpose and findings.
Sec. 8-132. - Definitions.
Sec. 8-133. - Smoki�pirohibited.
Sec. 8-134. - Administration.
Sec._ 8-135. - Violations and penalties.
Sec. 8-131. - Purpose and findings.
The city council finds that the smoking of tobacco, or any other weed, plant, or substance is a positive
danger to health and a material annoyance to those who are present in confined spaces, and in order to serve
public health, safety and welfare, the declared purpose of this chapter is to prohibit the smoking of tobacco, or
any other weed, plant or substance in public facilities owned or operated by the City of Costa Mesa as stated
and required in this chapter.
ford. No. 91-16. § 1. 6-17-91)
Sec. 8-132. - Definitions.
The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall be construed as defined in this
section:
(a) Public facility means any building, structure or room within a building or vehicle enclosed by a
roof and four (4) walls with appropriate openings for ingress and egress, and owned, leased or
operated by the City of Costa Mesa, a California municipal corporation, but does not include
facilities used as multifamily residential buildings.
(b) Smoke or smoking means and includes any of the following:
(1) The combustion of any cigar, cigarette, pipe, or any similar article using any form of
tobacco, or other combustible substance in any form;
(2) The holding or carrying of a lighted smoking device; or
(3) Emitting or exhaling the smoke directly from a cigar, cigarette, pipe or any other lighted
smoking device.
(c) Council chambers means that portion of the city hall as designated as the council chambers
generally occupied by the city council.
(0rd. No, 91-16, ;; 1, 6-17-91)
Sec. 8-133. - Smoking prohibited.
Smoking is prohibited and is unlawful within all public facilities, except in specifically designated areas
by resolution of city council, and the city council chambers which has been designated and posted as a no
smoking area by the city by signs of sufficient number and posted in such locations as to be readily seen by
persons within such area.
(Ori. No. 9 -?-16. j '1, 6-17-91)
Sec. 8-134. - Administration.
The no smoking regulations established by this chapter shall be administered by city code enforcement
officers as designated by the city manager.
(Ord 91..16. § 1.
Sec. 8-135. - Violations and penalties.
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Violation shall bodeemed aninfraction and shall bepunishable inaccordance with the
provisions set out in/section 1-33ofthis Code.
(Ord. No. 91-16, §y.6-17'gV
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