[Adopted 11-3-2021 by L.L. No. 13-2021]
The purpose of this article is to prohibit smoking on all Town
properties, including at all Town of Glenville parks and their facilities,
as well as picnic areas, sports areas, playgrounds and parking lots
owned or operated by the Town of Glenville. The Town Board hereby
finds that a potential health hazard exists from allowing smoking
on said premises both from smoke and from the debris created by discarded
cigarettes and other smoking materials. The Town of Glenville declares
that smoking in and upon certain Town-owned property is deleterious
to such property and harmful to the health of persons using and enjoying
such Town-owned lands. Accordingly, and based upon the authority of
the Town of Glenville to regulate the use of its property and the
authority of the Town to enact laws in furtherance thereof, including,
but not limited to, Town Law §§ 64 and 130, Public
Health Law § 1399-r, and the Municipal Home Rule Law § 10,
the Town of Glenville adopts this article in furtherance of the health,
welfare, and safety of the Town and its residents.
The smoking, principally, but not exclusively, meaning the use,
ignition, and/or consumption of tobacco, cannabis as defined in § 222.00
of the Penal Law, or cannabinoid hemp as defined in § 3
of the Cannabis Law and other combustible products designed to be
inhaled through cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vapes and similar devices,
or carrying of lighted cigarettes and/or cannabis and other smoking
materials, on all Town properties, including Town of Glenville parks
and their facilities, as well as picnic areas, sports areas, playgrounds
and parking lots owned or operated by the Town of Glenville is hereby
prohibited.
This article shall in no way limit or alter any restriction
upon smoking imposed by any law of the State of New York.