This article is adopted pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes
Section 7-148(c)(7)(H), as amended by Public Act 21-1 (June 2021 Special
Session), Section 84, which allows municipalities to regulate activities
deemed harmful to public health, including smoking, on municipally
owned or controlled property. Said law further allows a municipality
to control smoking of tobacco or cannabis, including cannabis e-cigarette
use (i.e., electronic delivery systems and vapor products), as well
as other types of cannabis use or consumption.
For purposes of this article, the Town of Cromwell adopts the
definitions used in Public Act 21-1 (June 2021 Special Session), as
the same may be amended from time to time.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use tobacco/cannabis
or cannabis-derived products, regardless of form or manner of ingestion,
on any public property located within, owned or controlled by the
Town of Cromwell. This prohibition includes but is not limited to:
the lighting or carrying of a lighted tobacco/cannabis or marijuana
cigarette or cigar or pipe, vaping devices, use of a vaping device
producing vapor of any cannabis product, or ingestion of a cannabis
edible substance. Violation of this section shall be punishable by
a fine of $50 per offense.
It shall be unlawful for any person, organization, entity, or
any other party to sell, give, trade, or in any other way transfer
cannabis products of any sort to another person, organization, entity,
or other party on property within, owned or controlled by the Town
of Cromwell. Such products include but are not limited to: cannabis
or marijuana cigarettes or cigars or pipes, vaping devices and vaping
substances, and edible substances. Violation of this section shall
be punishable by a fine of $50 per offense.
This article shall not apply to public property located solely
within an improved road right-of-way.
This article shall take effect 30 days after publication of
a summary of its provisions pursuant to Town of Cromwell Town Charter,
Article II, Section 2.11(b).