[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Union 5-24-1982 by Ord. No. 82-1. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
The smoking and/or carrying of a lighted pipe,
lighted cigar, lighted cigarette and/or lighted tobacco in any form
is prohibited in the areas herein designated.
Except as otherwise provided, smoking shall
be prohibited in any and all school buildings located within the Township
of Union, County of Berks and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in
any and all school buses and/or school vans being operated within
the said Township of Union. A fire official, appointed by the Board
of Supervisors of the said Township of Union, may designate a specific
safe location, if requested so to do in writing, in any building,
structure or place wherein smoking may be permitted.
A fire official appointed by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Union, Berks County, Pennsylvania, is empowered
and authorized to order the owner or occupant to post "No Smoking"
signs in each building, structure, room or place in which smoking
shall be prohibited. The content, lettering, size, color and location
of required "No Smoking" signs shall be subject to the approval of
the fire official. Instead of posting "No Smoking" signs in each building,
structure, room or place, the fire official is hereby empowered and
authorized to order the owner or occupant to post signs stating "No
Smoking in this Building Except Where 'Smoking Permitted' Signs Appear."
It shall be unlawful for any person to obscure,
remove, deface, mutilate or destroy a posted "No Smoking" sign.
It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke,
throw or deposit any lighted or smoldering substance in any and all
school buildings located within the Township of Union, Berks County,
Pennsylvania, and in any and all school buses and/or school vans being
operated within the said Township of Union where smoking is prohibited.
Where smoking is permitted, there shall be provided
on each table, and at other convenient locations, suitable noncombustible
ash trays or match receivers.
