Section 19.16.050 Smoking near health care facilities.

1. It shall be unlawful for a person to loiter or otherwise remain on public property and smoke a pipe, cigar, cigarette or similar item when the following conditions are met:

a. The public property is abutting land on which there is a building operating as a health care facility and the public property is within 20 feet of the healthcare facility’ s property.

b. A sign not less than one by one-half foot nor more than twenty-five (25) square foot has been erected and placed within five foot of the public property abutting a building containing a health care facility. The sign shall contain the international "No Smoking symbol" (consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it) along with the words describing the area where the use of tobacco products is prohibited, (i.e. "On Sidewalk/Alley/Public Property").

3. As used herein a "health care facility" means a hospital, a medical clinic, a doctor's office including dental and chiropractic practitioners, a public health center, a medical laboratory, a mobile care unit, a nursing home, residential care facility or a diagnostic or treatment center. (Ord. 2004-1013)