[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Glocester as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[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.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke or vape cannabis in a public place as set forth in § 154-1.
[Amended 5-18-2023, effective 5-18-2023]
B. 
Nothing in this section shall preclude the Town of Glocester or any law enforcement officer of any jurisdiction from charging an offender for a violation of any other applicable law or ordinance arising from the offender's prohibited conduct.
C. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the transportation of cannabis or cannabis products.
A. 
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalty referenced in Part I, Administrative Legislation, General Provisions, Article II, Penalties, § 1-15, Specific Penalties, of the Glocester Code of Ordinance.
B. 
Notwithstanding any of the provisions herein, shall there be a conflict with any provisions of the Rhode Island General Laws governing the regulation of the consumption of cannabis, the provisions of state law shall control.
This article shall take effect upon passage.