[HISTORY: Adopted by the Representative Town Meeting of the Town
of Fairfield 6-26-1978. Amendments noted,where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes alcohol, beer, spirits or wine, as those terms are defined
in Section 30-1 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended,
and every liquid or solid, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits, wine
or beer and capable of being consumed by a human being for beverage purposes,
except for any liquid or solid containing less then 1/2 of 1% of alcohol by
volume.
Includes all public schools and adjoining properties, office facilities,
buses used for student conveyance, whether owned or contracted, and properties
used by said Board of Education for educational purposes.
Any discarded, used or consumed substance or waste, including but
not limited to any bottle, jar or can or any top, cap or detachable tab of
any bottle, jar or can, any unlighted cigarette, cigar, match or any flaming
or glowing material or any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass
clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspapers, magazines, glass, metal,
plastic or paper containers or other packaging or construction material, abandoned
automobiles and other motor vehicles, furniture, oil, any noxious or offensive
matter of any kind, any object likely to injure any person or create a traffic
hazard or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature.
Unless medicinally administered or used in conjunction with a class
supervised by a member of the school faculty or used for maintenance purposes
by maintenance personnel, the consumption, possession or transfer by any means
of alcoholic beverages is hereby prohibited in or on property of the Board
of Education, but nothing in this chapter precludes the appropriate application
for and issuance of temporary permits under Section 30-35 of the Connecticut
General Statutes, as amended.
The depositing of litter upon Board of Education property, except in
receptacles provided for the depositing of such material, is hereby prohibited.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than $50 for each offense, except that, during the thirty-day period commencing with the effective date of this chapter, alleged violators of this chapter shall receive a written warning and shall not be subject to arrest. Violators of § 52-2 of this chapter after three violations may be referred to an appropriate professional counsel or agency.
The Board of Education shall inform all public school students enrolled
in grades seven through 12 of the provisions of this chapter, and copies of
this chapter shall be placed in at least one conspicuous place in each school
attended by students in any of such grade levels.
