[Adopted 3-16-2023, effective
3-16-2023]
Under Rhode Island General Laws § 21-28.11-16(b) "Local
control," any city or town may adopt ordinances that ban or impose
restrictions on the smoking or vaporizing of cannabis products in
public places.
For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following
meanings:
CANNABIS PRODUCTS
Products that have been manufactured and contain cannabis
or an extract from cannabis, including concentrated forms of cannabis
and products composed of cannabis and other ingredients that are intended
for use or consumption, including oils.
PUBLIC PLACE
A "public place" includes, but shall not be limited to, public
ways, streets, sidewalks, walkways, alleys or alleyways, highways,
bridges, overpasses, parking lots, municipal buildings, municipal
parking lot facilities, municipal parking lot ramps, vacant or undeveloped
lots, transportation facilities, parks (including trails and conservation
areas), athletic fields and their seating areas, pools, plazas, building
facades, stairwells, alcoves, doorways, entrance ways, pedestrian
malls, playgrounds, places of amusement, hallways, lobbies, and other
portions of apartment houses and hotels/motels not constituting rooms
or apartments designed for actual residence. For purposes of this
section, all parks, athletic facilities, recreational facilities and
conservation areas owned by the Town of Glocester shall also constitute
public places.
SMOKING or VAPORIZE
Inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted or vaporized
cannabis in any manner or form.
This article shall take effect upon passage.