ORDINANCE Tobacco Free Facilities WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City ofLyons find that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to indoor air pollution, and that breathing secondhand tobacco smoke is a cause of disease inl healthy non-smokers, including heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and lung cancer; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council ofthe City ofLyons find that secondhand tobacco smoke is particularly hazardous to elderly people, individuals with cardiovascular disease and individuals with impaired respiratory WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City ofLyons find that children exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of asthma, respiratory infections, sudden infant death syndrome, developmental WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City ofLyons find that secondhand tobacco smoke in the proximity of non-smoking employees oft the City as well as children and other non-smoking adults ini the proximity ofi indoor and outdoor public facilities owned or operated by the City ofLyons is contrary to the City'si interests in promoting the health, safety and welfare of those children and non-smoking adults; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council ofthe City ofLyons find that cigarette butts, cigar butts, pipe dottle, chewing tobacco, and smokeless tobacco discarded at indoor and outdoor public facilities owned or operated by the City ofLyons increase maintenance expenses, diminish the beauty ofsuch facilities and pose other function, including asthmatics and those with COPD; abnormalities, and cancer. health risks; and NOW THEREFORE, the Mayor and Council hereby Ordinance No. CHAPTER AND PURPOSE. CHAPTER AND PURPOSE. Chapter Usec ofTobacco Products on City Property Prohibited. ENACTING CLAUSE. The Council ofthe City ofLyons, Georgia hereby ordains that the adopted Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as more particularly seti forth herein. It is the intention oft the Mayor and the Council, and iti is hereby ordained that the following shall become and be made aj part oft the Code of the City ofLyons, and the Sections oft the Code int this Chapter effective and oft this ordinance may be renumbered to accomplish that intention. Use ofTobacco Products on City Property and Facilities Prohibited. Sec. Unlawful Use ofTobacco Products. It shall be unlawful for any person to use any form of tobacco, including, but not limited to cigarettes, E-cigarettes, cigars, tobacco pipes, chewing tobacco, and any form ofsmokeless tobacco at, in or on any indoor or outdoor facilities owned or operated by the City of Lyons, including, but not limited to all public buildings, City owned vehicles and equipment, real property, parking lots, restrooms, parks, athletic fields, and walking/hiking trails leased, owned or maintained by the CityofLyons. Sec. Sec. Signage. The City shall cause appropriate signs to be posted sufficient to inform the public and Enforcement. City staffLyons Police and Code Enforcement Officers shall make periodic all City ofLyons Employees ofthe prohibition on the use oft tobacco products as set forth in Sec. inspection ofall City property and facilities to monitor for compliance with this Section ofthe Code. (A)] Employees of the City that knowingly use tobacco products in violation of this Ordinance shall be subject to disciplinary action. Repeated violations ofthis Ordinance by employees oft the City may result in disciplinary action, including, but not limited to written reprimand, suspension from employment without pay, (B). Any other person(s) found in violation oft the prohibition on the use oftobacco products set forth in this Code Section shall be entitled to one (1) verbal warning by a Lyons Police or Code Enforcement Officera staffmember of the City ofLyons prior to enforcement oft this Code Section by issuance ofa citation by a law or dismissal for cause. enforcement officer Lyons Police or Code Enforcement Officer. (C) The minimum fine for the first conviction of violating this Ordinance within twelve (12) months shall be Fifty dollars ($50.00). Subsequent violations within the same twelve (12) month period by the same individual shall double for each violation up to a maximum of $800.00. (D) The City ofI Lyons recommends the Georgia Tobacco Quit Line(I-800-270-7867,. at toll free resource operated by the Georgia Cancer Coalition, for those members oft the public and employees ofthe City of Lyons that are attempting to quit tobacco use. More information is available at wwAgcorgacancer.orer.oreprev-gutimeph, Section ofthis ordinance. Section conflict. Severability. Ifthej provisions of any section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision or clause of this ordinance shall be determined invalid' by a court of competent jurisdiction, such order of judgment shall not affect or invalidate the remainder of any ordinance, section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision or clause Repealer. All ordinances or parts thereofwhich are in conflict with any provision or any section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision or clause oft this ordinance are. hereby repealed to the extent oft the INV WITNESS WHEREOF, Ihave hereunto set my hand and caused this seal to be affixed, this the Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk