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<br /> <br /> <br />Redwood City, California, City Code <br />ATTY/2024/ORD.0012/CC ORD AMENDING MUNI CODE CH 15 (SMOKING REGULATIONS) – EXHIBIT A <br />REV: 01-14-25 JB <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />BAR: An area which is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages and in which the service of food is only <br />incidental to the consumption of such beverages. <br />BUSINESS: Any sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation or other business entity formed for <br />profit-making purposes, including retail establishments where goods or services are sold or rendered, as well as <br />professional corporations and other entities where legal, medical, dental, engineering, architectural or other <br />professional services are delivered. <br />CHARACTERIZING FLAVOR means a distinguishable taste, aroma, or both, other than the taste or aroma of <br />tobacco, imparted by a tobacco product or any byproduct produced by the tobacco product. Characterizing flavors <br />include, but are not limited to, tastes or aroma relating to any fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, <br />dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint, wintergreen, herb, or spice. A tobacco product shall not be determined <br />to have a characterizing flavor solely because of the use of additives or flavorings or the provision of ingredient <br />information. Rather, it is the presence of a distinguishable taste or aroma or both, as described in the first <br />sentence of this definition that constitutes a characterizing flavor. <br />COMMON AREA: Means every enclosed area and every unenclosed area in a multi-unit residence that residents of <br />more than one (1) unit are entitled to enter or use, including, without limitation, halls, pathways, lobbies, <br />courtyards, elevators, stairs, community rooms, playgrounds, gym facilities, swimming pools, parking garages, <br />parking lots, grassy or landscaped areas, restrooms, laundry rooms, cooking areas, and eating areas. <br />CONSTITUENT means any ingredient, substance, chemical, or compound, other than tobacco, water, or <br />reconstituted tobacco sheet that is added by the manufacturer to a tobacco product during the processing, <br />manufacture, or packing of the tobacco product. <br />DISTINGUISHABLE means perceivable by either the sense of smell or taste. <br />DISTRIBUTE or DISTRIBUTION means the transfer by any person other than a common carrier, at any point from <br />the place of manufacture or thereafter, to a person who sells the electronic cigarette or other electronic smoking <br />device. <br />ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE has the meaning set forth in Section 30121 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code, <br />as may be amended from time to time. <br />ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE: Means an electronic device that can be used to deliver an inhaled dose of nicotine, <br />or other substances, including any component, part, or accessory of such a device, whether or not sold separately. <br />"Electronic smoking device" includes any such device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an <br />electronic cigarette, an electronic cigar, an electronic cigarillo, an electronic pipe, a vape pen or other vaping <br />device, an electronic hookah, or any other product name or descriptor. <br />EMPLOYEE: Any person who is employed by any employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages <br />or profit, and any person who volunteers his or her services for a nonprofit entity. <br />EMPLOYER: Any person, partnership, corporation or nonprofit entity, including a municipal corporation, who or <br />which employs the services of one or more persons. <br />ENCLOSED SPACE: An area that has any type of overhead cover and at least three (3) walls or other physical <br />boundaries of any height that prevent air from circulating freely to all parts of the area; or four (4) walls or other <br />vertical boundaries that exceed six (6) feet in height, and includes covered parking lots, lobbies, lounges, waiting <br />areas, elevators, stairwells, and restrooms that are a structural part of the building. <br />EXISTING UNIT: Means a unit that is not a new unit. <br />FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCT means any tobacco product that contains a constituent that impacts a <br />characterizing flavor. <br />HOOKAH means a tobacco pipe with one (1) or more long and flexible tubes, which draws smoke from tobacco <br />products through water contained in a bowl.