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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 4 of 5 <br />PUBLIC PLACE: Any enclosed space to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including, but <br />not limited to, banks, educational facilities, health facilities, public transportation facilities, reception areas, <br />restaurants, retail food production and marketing establishments, retail service establishments, retail stores, <br />theaters and waiting rooms. <br />RESTAURANT: Any coffeeshop, cafeteria, tavern, sandwich stand, soda fountain, private or public school cafeteria <br />and any other eating establishment, organization, club, boarding house or guesthouse which gives or offers food <br />for sale to the public, guests, patrons or employees, except that the term "restaurant" shall not include a cocktail <br />lounge or tavern if said cocktail lounge or tavern is a "bar" as defined above. <br />RETAIL TOBACCO STORE: A retail store utilized primarily for the sale of tobacco products and accessories. <br />SELL, SALE or TO SELL mean any transaction where, for any consideration, ownership is transferred from one (1) <br />person or entity to another including, but not limited to any transfer of title or possession for consideration, <br />exchange or barter, in any manner or by any means. <br />SENIOR CITIZENS ORGANIZATION: Only those organizations having a minimum of twenty (20) members, the <br />eligibility of membership of which requires that members shall be at least fifty (50) years of age, and the purpose <br />of which is to provide educational and recreational activities for its members. <br />SERVICE LINE: Any indoor line at which one or more persons are waiting for or recovering service of any kind, <br />whether or not such service includes the exchange of money. SMOKE: Means the gases, particles, or vapors <br />released into the air as a result of combustion, electrical ignition, or vaporization when the apparent or usual <br />purpose of the combustion, electrical ignition, or vaporization is human inhalation of the byproducts, except when <br />the combusting or vaporizing material contains no tobacco or nicotine and the purpose of inhalation is solely <br />olfactory, such as, for example, smoke from incense. The term "smoke" includes, but is not limited to, tobacco <br />smoke, electronic smoking device vapors, cannabis smoke, and smoke released into the air by combustion, <br />electrical ignition, or vaporization of any illegal drugs. <br />SMOKING: Shall have the same meaning as defined in California Business and Professions Code Section 22950.5(c), <br />which as of the effective date of this ordinance means, inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or <br />heated cigar, cigarette, or pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for inhalation, <br />whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. “Smoking” includes the use of an electronic smoking <br />device that creates an aerosol or a vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any oral smoking device for <br />the purpose of circumventing the prohibition of smoking. <br />SMOKE-FREE RESIDENCE: Means a multi-unit residence that complies with the requirements of this article as of <br />January 1, 2018. <br />SPORTS ARENA: Sports pavilions, gymnasiums, health spas, boxing arenas, swimming pools, roller and ice rinks, <br />bowling alleys and other similar places where members of the public assemble to engage in physical exercise, <br />participate in athletic competition or witness sports events. <br />TOBACCO PRODUCT means any product containing, made, or derived from tobacco or nicotine that is intended for <br />human consumption, whether smoked, heated, chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested <br />by any other means, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, <br />and snuff; and any electronic device that delivers nicotine to the person inhaling from the device, including, but <br />not limited to, any electronic smoking device as defined herein, including but not limited to an electronic cigarette, <br />electronic cigar, electronic pipe, or hookah. "Tobacco product" does not include any product that has been <br />approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product or for other <br />therapeutic purposes where such product is marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose. <br />TOBACCO RETAILER means any store, stand, booth, concession or any other enterprise that engages in the retail <br />sale of tobacco products. <br />UNENCLOSED AREA: Means any area that is not an enclosed area.