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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1013-1987 ORDINANCE NO. 1013-87 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 8.50.030(a)(1) OF THE SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO SMOKING IN RESTAURANTS WITH A CAPACITY OF FIFTY OR MORE PERSONS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Subsection (a)(1) of Section 8.50.030 is hereby amended to read: Section 8.50.030 Smoking Prohibited (a) Restaurants (1) Restaurants for Fifty or More Persons. For restaurants whose occupied capacity is fifty or more persons, a policy for providing nonsmoking areas shall be devised. At the request of a patron, the patron shall be seated in a nonsmoking area if at all possible. SECTION 2. This ordinance is declared to be an urgency ordinance, adopted pursuant to the provisions of Government Code Section 36937, in that it is for the immediate preservation of public peace, health and safety. The City Council finds and declares that it is necessary to adopt this urgency ordinance because the appropriateness of previously enacted restrictions on smoking in restaurants accommodating fifty or more persons have been seriously questioned. This ordinance is deemed necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare in that the City Council does not want to create a situation which will lead to knowing and deliberate violation of a local law by restaurant proprietors nor intentional nonenforcement of a local law by the city. SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall be published once as required by law in the Enterprise- Journal, a newspaper of general circulation in the City of South San Francisco, and shall take effect as an urgency measure simultaneously with Ordinance No. 1010-87, adopted February 11, 1987 and effective thirty (30) days from and after its adoption. Adopted as an urgency Ordinance of the City of South San Francisco in accordance with Government Code Section 36937 at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of South San Francisco, held on the 11th day of March , 1987, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers John "Jack" Drago, Gus Nicolopulos, Roberta Cerri Te~lia, and Mark N. Addiego NOES: Richard A. Haffe¥ ABSENT: N~nm As Mayor of the City of South San Francisco, I do hereby approve the foregoing Ordinance this 11th day of March , 19 87 -2-