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O1464 e e CA:RMM:lld382/hpc 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 - 1 - e e 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inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to affect the provisions of this Ordinance. - 2 - e e 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: (~ ....J.-.. L-,rt ""r"h./ hi 'j /"'rv--X../~ ROBERT M. MYERS 0 city Attorney - 3 - e e Adopted and approved this lOth day of January, 1989. ~ e---,.. t -- -<-, Ma~ 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 ~ -_:.~/ /~, ~ / . /7~A ----- - - City Clerl{