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city Council Meeting 1-10-89
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1464(CCS)
(City council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTION 4924 RELATING TO THE POSTING OF NO
SMOKING SIGNS IN RESTAURANTS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Municipal Code Section 4924 is amended to read
as follows:
SECTION 4924. posting of Signs.
(a) The person having the authority
to manage and control any area designated
as a nonsmoking area pursuant to Section
4922 or 4923, shall post or cause to be
posted and prominently displayed, and
shall maintain "No SmOking" signs in
conspicuous locations within said area.
All
such
signs
shall
clearly
and
conspicuously reei te the phrase "NO
SMOKING" and/or use the international
no-smoking symbol.
(b) In all places regulated by
section 4922 or Section 4923 other than
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restaurants, signs shall be posted not
less than five (5) feet nor more than
eight (8) feet above floor level and shall
be of sufficient number and location to
cause the mElssage of at least one of the
signs to be clearly visible, legible, and
readable by all patrons.
(c) In connection with restaurants,
one of the following shall be required in
order to comply with this Section:
(1) Free-standing signs or
permanent wall signs of sufficient number
and location to cause the message of at
least one of the signs to be clearly
visible, legible, and readable by all
patrons.
(2) Placement of washable
placards or other signs on all non-smoking
tables.
(d) Violation of, or failure to
comply with, this section is a
misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
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SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The city Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared inval id or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the city Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS 0
city Attorney
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Adopted and approved this lOth day of January, 1989.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1464 (CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the city
Council on the 13th day of December 1988; that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City council on
the lOth day of January 1989 by the following Council vote:
Ayes:
councilmembers:
Abdo, Finkel, Genser, Jennings,
Katz, Mayor Zane
Noes: Councilmembers:
None
Abstain: councilmembers:
None
Absent: councilmembers:
Reed
ATTEST t
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