[Adopted 11-27-1979 by Ord.
No. 180]
[Amended 8-27-1996 by Ord.
No. 265]
The following conduct is hereby prohibited by this ordinance:
A. The use of tobacco in any form is prohibited on any property
administered by the Easton Area School District in Palmer Township designated
with a "no smoking" sign. The use of tobacco set forth herein includes the
smoking or carrying by any person of a cigar, cigarette, pipe or other smoking
device and/or the use of smokeless tobacco in any form.
B. The obstruction, removal, defacing, mutilation or destruction
of posted "no smoking" signs.
C. The throwing or depositing of any lighted or smoldering
smoking substance on any property administered by the Easton Area School District
in Palmer Township designated with "no smoking" signs.
[Amended 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-365]
This ordinance shall be enforced as follows:
A. The Palmer Township Fire Commissioner is empowered and
authorized to order the owner or occupant to post "no smoking" signs in each
building, structure, room, place and school bus in which smoking shall be
prohibited. The content, lettering, size, color and location of the required
"no smoking" sign shall be subject to the approval of the Palmer Township
Fire Commissioner.
B. Any violation of this ordinance may be prosecuted by
the Palmer Township Fire Commissioner or any Palmer Township code officer
or by any Palmer Township police officer or by any principal or assistant
principal of the Easton Area School District.
[Amended 10-25-1988 by Ord.
No. 227]
A. Any person violating any section of this ordinance shall
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be subject to the payment of a fine,
upon conviction before a District Justice, in an amount which shall not be
less than $25 nor more than $600, as provided by law.
B. Each day of violation of the particular code or ordinance
applicable shall be considered a separate offense, for which the fines and
penalties stated herein may be imposed on a daily basis.
C. For collection of fines and penalties, see §
1-16E of Chapter
1, General Provisions.
Should any section or provision of this ordinance be declared by a court
of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such a determination shall not affect
the validity of this ordinance as a whole, or any other part thereof.
This ordinance shall become effective five days after adoption.