Needles Municipal Code Art. 2 VIII Smoking Prohibited In City-Owned Facilities

2-34 Definitions 2-35 Smoking Prohibited In Certain City-Owned Facilities 2-36 Posting Requirements 2-37 Enforcement

2-34 Definitions

For the purpose of this article, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the words and phrases set forth shall have the following meaning:

1. “Smoking” means the carrying or holding of a lighted pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind, or any other lighted smoking equipment or the lighting or emitting or exhaling the smoke of a pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind. (Ord. No. 311-AC)

2-35 Smoking Prohibited In Certain City-Owned Facilities

Smoking shall be prohibited in the following city-owned facilities:

1. City Hall office building located at 1111 Bailey Avenue, which shall include the city council chambers and the office space currently leased to the California Department of Motor Vehicles;
2. Police department building located at 1111 Bailey Avenue;
3. Needles park and recreation building located a 1111 Civic Center Drive;
4. Needles electric office located at 817 Third Street;
5. The temporary modular golf clubhouse located at 144 Marina Drive. (Ord. No. 311-AC; Ord. No. 336- AC; Ord. No. 344-AC.)

2-36 Posting Requirements

“No Smoking” signs, with letters of not less than one inch in height, or the international “No Smoking” symbol (consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it) and citing Needles City Code Sec. 2-36 shall be clearly, sufficiently, and conspicuously posted in every building or other place where smoking is prohibited by this article. (Ord. No. 311-AC)

2-37 Enforcement

1. Administration of this article shall be by the city manager or his designees.
2. Any citizen who desires to register a complaint hereunder may initiate enforcement consideration with the city manager or his designee.
3. A violation of any provision of this article shall constitute a public nuisance and may be abated by the city or by any affected employee or resident of the city through civil process by means of restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction or in any other manner provided by law for the abatement of such nuisance. (Ord. No. 311-AC)