Title 11 - Peace, Morals and Safety

Employee

Any person who performs services for an employer, with or without compensation.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Employer

A person, partnership, association, corporation, trust, or other organized group of individuals, including the City or any agency thereof, which utilizes the services of one (1) or more employees.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Enclosed

A space bound by walls (with or without windows) continuous from the floor to the ceiling and enclosed by doors, including, but not limited to, offices, rooms, all space therein screened by partitions, which do not extend to the ceiling or are not solid, “office landscaping” or similar structures and halls.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Open Office Landscaping

Indoor areas without permanent walls, or walls that are not floor to ceiling; open space such as waiting areas and atriums; cubicles and/or open desk seating areas.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Place of Employment

Any enclosed area under the control of public or private employer which employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including, but not limited to, work areas, employee lounges and restrooms, conference and classrooms, employee cafeterias, hotel or motel sleeping rooms, private rooms in nursing homes, private meeting/conference rooms and halls not open to the general public while being used for private functions or located within private clubs and hallways. A private residence is not a “place of employment” unless it is used as a childcare, adult day care or health care facility.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Public Place

Any enclosed area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including but not limited to, banks, educational facilities, health facilities, laundromats, public transportation facilities, reception areas, production and marketing establishments, retail service establishments, retail stores, theaters, and waiting rooms. A private residence is not a “public place.”

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Service Line

Any indoor line at which one (1) or more persons are waiting for or receiving service of any kind, whether or not such service involves the exchange of money.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Smoking

Inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or other tobacco product, or use of an electronic or battery-powered vaporizer that simulates tobacco smoking by producing an aerosol that resembles smoke.  "Smoking" shall also include the use of liquid nicotine, the active ingredient of the tobacco plant (nicotine), in liquefied form when introduced into the human body by nasal spray, ingestion, smoking or other means.

Effective on: 8/1/2016

Sports Arena

Sports pavilions, gymnasiums, health spas, boxing arenas, swimming pools, roller and ice rinks, bowling alleys and other similar places where members of the general public assemble either to engage in physical exercise, participate in athletic competition, or witness sports events.

(History: Ord. POC-3125 §6, 2016; POC-3054 §4, 2014; POC-2632 §2, 2008)

Effective on: 8/1/2016