Los Angeles County Municipal Code Part 3 Smoking on Buses

A person shall not smoke or possess any burning cigarette, cigar or pipe while on any streetcar, interurban car, motor bus or other vehicle operated for the purpose of transporting passengers for hire within the unincorporated territory of the county of Los Angeles along a regular route, and picking up or discharging such passengers along county highways, except in a compartment in such vehicle set apart for the use of smokers.

(Ord. 5063 § 1, 1948.)

Every person operating, and every person, firm or corporation in charge of any such streetcar, interurban car, motor bus or other vehicle, while such vehicle is operated in the unincorporated territory of the county of Los Angeles, shall maintain at all such times signs stating that smoking is prohibited, if there is no smoking compartment on such vehicle; or, if there is a smoking compartment on such vehicle, that smoking is prohibited except in such smoking compartment.

(Ord. 5063 § 2, 1948.)

A.

Violation of Part 3 of this chapter is an infraction punishable by:

A fine not exceeding $50.00 for a first violation;

A fine not exceeding $100.00 for a second violation within one year;

A fine not exceeding $250.00 for each additional violation within one year.

B.

Each day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this chapter is committed, continued or permitted is a separate offense.

(Ord. 12264 § 8, 1980; Ord. 5063 § 3, 1948.)

If any portion of the ordinance set out in this Part 3, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

(Ord. 5063 § 4, 1948.)