HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 79ORDINANCE NO. 79
AN ORDINANC* nV THE CITY O! PAW DESERT,
CALIFORMIA, _ :BITING SMOKING AND CARRYING
O! LIGHTED OBJECTS IN THE CITY FALL CHAMBERS.
The City Council of the City of Palm Desert, Cali-
fornia, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION It That said City Council does hereby
prohibit smoking, and no person shall smoke in the City
Hall Council Chambers on Prickly Pear Lane in the City of
Pals Desert, during any meeting of any organization taking
place in said rocs. No person shall smoke or carry a
lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or match not otherwise
specifically authorised for use in such City Council Chamber.
SECTION 2: The City Manager, or his authorised
representative, shall cause the posting of a sign indicating
•Smoking prohibited by law*, to be erected in said City
Hall Chamber.
SECTION 3: Any person violating any of the provi-
sions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a sisde-
mesnor and upon conviction shall be fined an amount not
exceeding $500.00 or imprisoned in the County Jail for a
period not exceeding six months, or by boch such fine and
imprisonsent. Each day such violation is committed or
permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense
and shall be punishable as such hereunder.
SECTION 4: The City Council does hereby declare
that the aforementioned ordinance is necessary for the pre-
servation of the public health, safety and welfare of the
citizens of the City of Pala Desert, and that its enactment
Is an urgent masure and as such should be in full force
and effect from and after the date of adoption.
SECTION St The City Clark shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the
RESCINDED
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sane to be pablished once, fifteen (15) days attar its adop-
tion, to the Post, a newspaper of yenaaal circulation, printed,
putlisbad and circulated within the City of Pale Desert.
PASSED, "PROM and ADOPTUD this loth _ day of
Job, 1975, by the following vote:
AYES* BENBON, BRUSH, McPHERSON AND CLARK
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Mayor
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