It is the intent and purpose of the City Council to control exposure to secondhand smoke by prohibiting smoking at public parks in the City of Inglewood. The City Council hereby finds that environmental tobacco smoke, or secondhand smoke, is a toxic contaminant, which may cause and contribute to death or serious illness, including increased risk of cancer, and is especially hazardous to infants, children, older people, and people with asthma and other respiratory problems. The intent and purpose of prohibiting smoking at the public parks is to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by reducing the number of locations in the City where exposure to secondhand smoke can occur. The provisions of this Article are intended to be a supplement to existing State law smoking prohibitions and restrictions.
(Ord. 10-15 10-12-10)
"Park"
means any outdoor area, owned or operated by the City of Inglewood or the Inglewood Redevelopment Agency, open to the general public for primarily recreational purposes, regardless of any fee or age requirement, including, but not limited to, picnic areas, playgrounds, sports or athletic fields, walking paths, gardens, hiking trails, bike paths, skateboard parks and dog parks. A park shall not include any paved public sidewalk immediately abutting the boundary of the park, or any parking area within the boundaries of the park.
"Smoking" or "to smoke"
means the possession of a lighted tobacco product, lighted tobacco paraphernalia, or any other lighted weed or plant, including a lighted pipe, cigar, hookah pipe, or cigarette of any kind; and the lighting of a tobacco product, tobacco paraphernalia, or any other weed or plant, including a pipe, cigar, hookah pipe, or cigarette of any kind.
"Tobacco paraphernalia"
means cigarette papers or wrappers, holders of smoking materials of all types, cigarette rolling machines, and any other item designed for the smoking, preparation, storing or consumption of tobacco products.
"Tobacco product"
means:
(1) 
Any substance containing tobacco leaf, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, bidis, or any other preparation of tobacco; and
(2) 
Any product or formulation of matter containing biologically active amounts of nicotine that is manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or otherwise distributed with the expectation that the product matter will be introduced into the human body, but does not include any product specifically approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in treating nicotine or tobacco dependence.
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(a) 
Prohibition. Smoking within any City park area is prohibited.
(b) 
Tobacco Waste. The disposal of tobacco product or tobacco paraphernalia within any City park is prohibited, except in a City-designated waste receptacle, or unless being done as part of a scene in a film, television or live performance production.
(c) 
Posting of Signs. The City shall cause the installation of "No Smoking" signs, with letters of no less than one inch in height and including the international "No Smoking" symbol, consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle crossed by a red bar. Such signs shall be clearly and conspicuously posted and maintained at all entrances to a City park, and additional signs shall be posted in a quantity and manner reasonably likely to inform individuals occupying the City park that smoking is prohibited within the area.
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(a) 
Nothing in this Article shall be construed to grant any person an affirmative right to smoke or permit smoking in any area in which smoking is otherwise prohibited by this Article or State or Federal law, or prohibited by a person with property rights in the no-smoking area.
(b) 
No person shall willfully mutilate or destroy any sign required by this Article.
(c) 
The absence of signs required by this Article shall not be a defense to a violation of any provision of this Article.
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The provisions of this Article shall not apply to any person acting in a scene of a live performance production or a film or television production, as long as a film permit has been obtained, if required pursuant to the Inglewood Municipal Code.
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(a) 
The remedies provided by this Article are cumulative and in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity.
(b) 
A violation of this Article is subject to a civil action brought by the City Attorney, punishable by a civil fine of $100, per violation.
(c) 
A violation of any provision of this Article shall be prosecuted as an infraction.
(d) 
Causing, permitting, aiding, abetting, or concealing a violation of any provision of this Article shall also constitute a violation of this Article.
(e) 
Any violation of this Article is hereby declared a public nuisance. In addition, any violation of this Article involving smoking is declared a private nuisance.
(f) 
Any person acting for the interests of itself, its members, or the general public may bring a civil action to enforce this Article.
(Ord. 10-15 10-12-10)