ORDINANCE O-19-062
TOBACCO PRODUCT -- Any item containing tobacco including, but not limited to,
cigarettes, smoking tobacco, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff, pipe tobacco. smokeless
tobacco, and smokeless cigareites.
§ 160-3. Use prohibited in certain locations near City-owned buildings.
A, Use of all tobacco products and e-cigarettes is prohibited within 30 feet of any
main entrance or exit, and any window, of all City-owned buildings. This shall
include sidewalks and walkways within the 30 feet, except when actively using
the sidewalk or walkway to get to another destination.
B. This section shall not apply to City-owned land and buildings under the control of
the board of education, the library board of trustees, the board of police
commissioners, the board of fire commissioners, the board of public works, and
the cemetery board of trustees, unless said board votes to adopt the use
prohibition found in subsection A.
8 160-4, Use prohibited in City-owned parks.
Use of all tobacco products and e-cigarettes is prohibited in City-owned parks.
§ 160-5. Signs required.
Signs shall be prominently placed and maintained at all applicable City parks and public
places, notifying the public of the prohibition against the use of tobacco products and e-
cigarettes. Such signs shall state: “The use of tobacco products and e-cigarettes in this
public area is strictly prohibited.”
§ 160-6. Violations and penalties.
Any person who is found to have violated the provision of this article shall be subject to a
civil penalty in the amount of $25 for the first offense, $50 for the second offense, and
$100 for the third offense and subsequent offenses. Additionally, violators may be
removed from the City park or public place. In addition to these penalties, persons under
the age of 18 shall be subject to the provisions of RSA Chapter 126-K (“Youth Access to
and use of Tobacco Products”).”
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
This legislation shall take effect 90 days after passage.
