City of Bangor, ME
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2023-10-23
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The Code
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Part II General Legislation
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Chapter 291 Vehicles and Traffic
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Article IX Smoking in Motor Vehicles
- The Charter and State Acts
- Ch C Charter
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- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 City Seal
- Ch 9 City Council
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- Ch 33 Code of Ethics
- Ch 37 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 45 Funds
- General Legislation
- Ch 54 Airport Rules
- Ch 58 Alarm Systems
- Ch 61 Alcohol and Entertainment
- Ch 65 Animals
- Ch 71 Bangor Center Revitalization Area
- Ch 76 Blasting
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- Ch 95 Cultural Development
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- Ch 119 Flavored Tobacco and Nicotine Products
- Ch 120 Floodplain Management
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- Ch 125 Food Sovereignty
- Ch 127 Fuel Gas
- Ch 128 Furnaces, Fuel Storage Tanks and Solid Fuel Stoves
- Ch 134 General Assistance Program
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- Ch 202 Parades, Public Assemblies and Pickets
- Ch 206 Pawnbrokers
- Ch 211 Plumbing Code
- Ch 215 Police Regulations
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- Ch 247 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 252 Sewers and Drains
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- Ch 274 Synthetic Drugs
- Ch 276 Taxation
- Ch 278 Taxicabs and Livery Vehicles
- Ch 281 Temporary Camping Vehicles
- Ch 282 Tenant Housing Rights
- Ch 284 Trees
- Ch 291 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 291 Art IX Smoking in Motor Vehicles
- § 291-70 Smoking in motor vehicles with child passengers prohibited.
- § 291-71 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 295 Victualers
- Ch 302 Yard Sales
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Added 1-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-50]
A.
It shall be unlawful for the operator or any passenger
in a motor vehicle to smoke cigarettes, pipes, or cigars in a motor
vehicle, passenger van, pickup truck or commercial vehicle when any
person under the age of 18 is present in the vehicle, regardless of
whether the motor vehicle's windows are down.
B.
"Smoke" as used in this article, shall mean inhaling,
exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe,
weed, plant, regulated narcotic, or other combustible substance.
A.
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this article
shall be punished by a fine of $50. In any action in which the City
prevails it shall be entitled to attorneys' fees and all costs of
prosecution.
B.
Subsection A notwithstanding, prior to citing the operator or passenger of a motor vehicle for a violation of this article, the Police Department may give written notice to said person acting in violation of this article at the time of the violation informing the person of the use of the motor vehicle in violation of this article.
