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EXHIBIT A Redwood City, California, City Code CHAPTER 15 SMOKING REGULATIONS Redwood City, California, City Code ATTY/2024/ORD.0012/CC ORD AMENDING MUNI CODE CH 15 (SMOKING REGULATIONS) – EXHIBIT A REV: 01-14-25 JB Page 1 of 5 CHAPTER 15 SMOKING REGULATIONS ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL Sec. 15.1. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE: The Council hereby finds that: A. Numerous studies have found that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to indoor air pollution; B. Reliable studies have shown that breathing smoke exhaled or otherwise produced or caused by others ("secondhand smoke") is a significant health hazard, particularly for certain population groups, including elderly people, individuals with cardiovascular disease and individuals with impaired respiratory function, including asthmatics and those with obstructive airway disease; C. Health hazards induced by breathing secondhand smoke include lung cancer, respiratory infection, decreased respiratory function, bronchoconstriction and bronchospasm; D. Nonsmokers with allergies, respiratory diseases and those who suffer other ill effects of breathing secondhand smoke may experience a loss of job productivity or may be forced to take periodic sick leave because of adverse reactions to the same; E. Numerous studies have shown that a majority of both nonsmokers and smokers desire to have restrictions on smoking in public places and places of employment; and F. Smoking is a documented cause of fires, and cigarette and cigar burns and ash stains on merchandise and fixtures cause economic losses to businesses. G. Accordingly, the Council finds and declares that the purposes of this Chapter are to: 1. Protect the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in certain public places, except in designated smoking areas, and by regulating smoking in places of employment; and 2. Strike a reasonable balance between the needs of smokers and the need of nonsmokers to breathe smoke-free air and to recognize that, where these needs conflict, the need to breathe smoke-free air shall have priority. (Ord. No. 1969, § 1, 6-20-1988) Sec. 15.2. DEFINITIONS: The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: ADJACENT UNENCLOSED PROPERTY: Means any unenclosed area of property, publicly or privately owned, that abuts a multi-unit residence but does not include property containing detached single-family homes.