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ORDINANCE NO. 1546
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA PROHIBITING
SMOKING IN DESIGNATED AREAS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Part 9 of Chapter 2, Article IV is hereby
added to the Arcadia Municipal Code to read as follows:
"PART 9.
SMOKING PROHIBITED IN DESIGNATED AREAS
4290. SMOKING PROHIBITED.' It shall be unlawful for
any person to light, ignite or otherwise set fire to,
or smoke, carry, throw or deposit any lighted cigar,
cigarette, tobacco or other smoldering or smoke pro-
ducing substance within:
1. Those portions of any building, structure
or other enclosed facility open to the
general public for the primary purpose of
exhibiting any motion picture, stage
production, musical recital or similar
performance exclusive of sports events,
other than in an area which serves as a
lobby;
2. Any room, chamber, place of meeting or
public assembly wherein public business is
being conducted and which is open to members
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of the general public either as partici-
pants or as spectators, except that the
prohibition contained in this subparagraph
shall not apply within a contiguous area
containing fifty percent (50%) or less of
the room, chamber, or place of meeting or
public assembly, if the entity having
management and control of the premises has
designated and identified such area as a
Smoking-Permitted Area by appropriate signs,
provided that no division of that area of
such room, chamber, place of meeting or
public assembly set aside for use by the
general public shall be made on a front
area versus rear area basis.
3. Any elevator designed principally for the
accommodation of passengers.
4291. POSTING OF NO SMOKING SIGNS. The person having the
authority to manage and control any area set forth in the
preceding section wherein the described prOhibition applies
shall post or cause to be posted and prominently displayed,
and shall maintain "No Smoking" signs in conspicuous loca-
tions within said areas upon no less than two separate
walls or columns in such area. Said signs shall be posted
not less than five feet or more than eight feet above the
floor level and shall be of sufficient number and location
to cause the message by at least one of said signs to
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be clearly visible, legible and readable at all times
from any other point within this same range of height
from the floor in said area. Failure to post and main-
tain such signs shall be a misdemeanor.
4292. UNLAWFUL TO MUTILATE OR DESTROY SIGNS. It shall
be unlawful to mutilate or destroy any signs posted in
accordance with this Part.
4293. EXEMPTION. This Part 9 shall not be applicable
to any room, chamber or place of meeting or public
assembly under the jurisdiction of the Arcadia Public
Schools Board of Education unless such Board of Education
adopts and files with the City Clerk a Resolution declaring
such places to be subject to the smoking prohibition as
set forth above."
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this ordinance.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia
held on the 18th day of November , 1975, by the
affirmative vote of at least three Council members, to wit:
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AYES:
Councilmen Helms, Lauber, Saelid and Gilb
NOES:
Councilman Scott
ABSENT: None
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C1ty C er~ e C ty 0 Arca 1a
SIGNED AND APPROVED this
18th
day of
, 1975.
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ATTEST : ~ }
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City Clerk
(SEAL)
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