As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BOARD OF EDUCATION PROPERTIES
All lands and grounds owned by the Jefferson Township Board
of Education, including but not limited to all recreation fields,
parking areas and grounds adjacent to the buildings owned and operated
by the Board of Education.
[Added 12-21-2005 by Ord. No. 20-05]
ENCLOSED AREA
All areas between a floor and a ceiling extending to the
outer perimeter walls of a structure.
HASHISH
The resin extracted from any part of the plant genus Cannabis
L. and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation
of such resin.
[Added 9-1-2021 by Ord. No. 21-20]
MARIJUANA
All parts of the plant genus Cannabis L., whether growing
or not; the seeds thereof; and every compound, manufacture, salt,
derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant or its seeds, except
those containing resin extracted from such plant; but shall not include
the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks,
oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound,
manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such mature
stalks, fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of such plant
which is incapable of germination.
[Added 9-1-2021 by Ord. No. 21-20]
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Any Township- or Board of Education-owned or leased buildings,
including but not limited to all schools, municipal buildings, library,
senior center, health center, etc., in which the public is invited
or the public is permitted.
RECREATION PROPERTIES
Township-owned recreation properties consist of the following:
[Added 12-21-2005 by Ord. No. 20-05;
amended 5-11-2011 by Ord. No. 11-11]
Property
|
Location
|
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Lakeside Park
|
Bowling Green Parkway
|
Firemen's Field
|
Bowling Green Parkway
|
Ralph Ackerson Memorial Field
|
Ridge Road
|
Chamberlain Park
|
Courtney Drive
|
Legion Field
|
Legion Road
|
Kennedy Field
|
Apollo Drive
|
Dogwood Park
|
Dogwood Park Drive
|
Johnson's Pond
|
Cozy Lake Road and Notch
|
Water's Edge Tot Lot
|
Chamberlain Road
|
Berkshire Valley Park
|
Berkshire Valley Road
|
Oak Ridge Lake Park
|
Berkshire Valley Road
|
Longwood Lake Park
|
Longwood Lake Road
|
East Shore Park
|
East Shore Road
|
Camp Jefferson
|
81 Weldon Road
|
Creative Playground
|
Weldon Road
|
Children's Park
|
Swartz Boulevard
|
Ashley Cove
|
Espanong Road
|
Prospect Point Park
|
Florida Avenue
|
Township Senior Center
|
Schoolhouse Road
|
SMOKING
The burning of a cigar, cigarette, pipe or any other matter
or substance which contains any form of tobacco, marijuana, or hashish.
Said definition shall include the use of nicotine delivery systems,
electronic cigarettes, or personal vaporizers using tobacco, marijuana,
or hashish or their by-products.
[Amended 7-16-2014 by Ord. No. 14-14; 9-1-2021 by Ord. No. 21-20]
TOBACCO PRODUCT
Any product made from the tobacco plant or containing tobacco
leaf, for the purpose of smoking, chewing, inhaling or other personal
use, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco,
chewing tobacco, snuff and dipping tobacco. Tobacco products shall
also include electronic cigarettes, personal vaporizers using tobacco
or tobacco by-products, or nicotine delivery systems.
[Added 12-4-1996 by Ord. No. 20-96;
amended 7-16-2014 by Ord. No. 14-14]
TOWNSHIP PROPERTIES
All lands and grounds leased or owned by Jefferson Township,
including but not limited to all recreation fields, parking areas
and grounds adjacent to the buildings leased or owned by Jefferson
Township.
[Added 2-16-2022 by Ord. No. 22-01]
[Amended 12-21-2005 by Ord. No. 20-05; 2-16-2022 by Ord. No. 22-01]
A. Smoking in public buildings, on Township properties,
on recreation properties and on Board of Education properties as herein
defined within the Township of Jefferson is prohibited.
B. "No Smoking" signs or the international no smoking
symbol (consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette
enclosed in a red circle with a diagonal red line through its cross-section)
shall be posted at each public building entrance and within said building,
as well as at conspicuous locations on Township properties, on recreation
properties and Board of Education properties, in a number and in a
manner determined by the administrator in charge of each such building
or on such Township property, Board of Education property or recreation
property to be sufficient to inform the public that there is no smoking
allowed within the public buildings or on any such Township, Board
of Education or recreation properties. The signs may contain a warning
that smoking within the building or on any such property is subject
to a fine. The failure to post any such sign shall not be a defense
to a violation of this chapter.
C. This prohibition
does not apply to persons on Township roads.
[Added 12-4-1996 by Ord. No. 20-96;
amended 3-19-2003 by Ord. No. 7-03; 8-16-2006 by Ord. No. 21-06]
It shall be unlawful for any person under the
age of 19 years to smoke a tobacco product in any public building
or on any public grounds as defined herein or to possess any type
of container containing a tobacco product in a public building or
on public lands as herein defined.
[Added 12-4-1996 by Ord. No. 20-96;
amended 8-16-2006 by Ord. No. 21-06]
In view of the indiscriminate sales of tobacco
products to minors through tobacco vending machines, no vending machines
located within the Township of Jefferson shall be permitted to sell
or dispense tobacco products as herein defined unless said machine
contains a functioning locking device to prevent the indiscriminate
sales of tobacco products. Said locking device would only be unlocked
at such time that the person who wants to purchase a tobacco product
from a vending machine satisfies the owner or operator of said machine
that he or she is over the age of 19 years, in which event any persons
over 19 years of age would be able to purchase tobacco products from
a vending machine.
[Added 12-4-1996 by Ord. No. 20-96]
It shall be unlawful within the Township of
Jefferson to offer for sale or to sell tobacco products from a self-service
display. All self-service tobacco displays now located within the
Township of Jefferson made unlawful by the terms of this chapter shall
be removed within 30 days from the effective date of this chapter.
[Amended 2-16-2022 by Ord. No. 22-01]
The enforcement authorities of this chapter
shall be the police officers of the Township of Jefferson, the Health
Officer of the Township of Jefferson, and the Township Code Enforcement
Officer, and their respective designees.